I want to add something to this which is rarely discussed.

I personally value focus and flow extremely highly when I'm programming. Code assistance often breaks and prevents that in subtle ways. Which is why I've been turning it off much more frequently.

In an ironic way, using assistance more regularly helped me realize little inefficiencies, distractions and bad habits and potential improvements while programming:

I mean that in a very broad sense, including mindset, tooling, taking notes, operationalizing, code navigation, recognizing when to switch from thinking/design to programming/prototyping, code organization... There are many little things that I could improve, practice and streamline.

So I disagree with this statement at a fundamental level:

> The technical skill of writing code has been largely commoditized (...)

In some cases, I find setting yourself up to get into a flow or just high focus state and then writing code very effective, because there's a stronger connection with the program, my inner mental model of how it works in a more intricate manner.

To me there are two important things to learn at the moment: Recognizing what type of approach I should be using when and setting myself up to use each of them more effectively.