I am a lifelong (40+ years of daily coding so far) programmer and it brought me good things. I actually think I am working on my last project, which indeed is to replace programmers. Not all, just for things we as a company do. We are very far with it. My biggest, existential, revelation is that my goals and successful products have always been around replacing programmers. My first sale of a product company (that made me rich enough to retire, which I did not) was a nocode tool I built in the late 90s. As that has been my work and hobby ever since the early 80s, I cannot imagine what I would build if, indeed, I would no longer need to program but can just say what I want. I want nothing, but to program.