Ask HN: The quiet demolition of self‑learned skill

So I am a self-taught programmer and I have my way of creating programs. So it's easy to read, to comprehend and then I made the mistake of giving a part of this code to an LLM. And it turned out that it shortened my code to about 10% of the lines that I used and the code is now much more performant. At first I was psyched but then I thought I put so much effort into that. Years of my life went into being able to code like this, I used to be proud of it, and this LLM just does it in a fraction of the time. Just like that. Better, quicker. It now feels like it's not my code anymore. It's not my idea anymore.

Yes, it threw me into a small existential crisis.

Can you relate?

PS: I'm certain that every artist right now and every voice actor can relate.