The fun / creative part for me is not googling “how to slurp the contents of a file into a string” or “the exact syntax for marking some functions as unit tests” or “the correct order of symbols to specify generic type param”
It’s not “the correct html / css syntax for this basic gui I want to make”
It’s not “how to achieve the thing I’ve done 10 thousand times in other languages/frameworks, but for this language/framework”
It’s figuring the core logic out, building the thing while skipping the boring stuff, playing with abstractions that scratch my itch.
From this pov, AI is the best thing that has happened to my weekend coding. I code recreationally way more than before. Before AI, I would try a new language or framework, and I’d give up halfway because re-figuring out basic stuff for the umpteenth time is boring, it’s not fun at all. Now AI lets me skip those boring parts.