I see cursive writing brought up a lot in these conversations and I don't think it applies. Firstly, the cognitive load of writing code is higher than writing your letters so they join up. You're not just making sure you write the letters correctly, you're also following the syntax rules of the language you're writing. And while you're writing, you're reinforcing those rules in your head. Yes, initially it's hard and boring.
And yeah, sometimes you get it wrong or forget to capitalize. That is a feature, not a bug. The more you do it, the easier it gets. I spent a couple weeks trying to use CoPilot and at the end I still had to correct its shitty code, which either hallucinated features I wasn't implementing, or hallucinated syntax rules I wasn't using. It was like spending a sprint trying to get a subpar intern up to speed. At the end of those two weeks, my manual coding accuracy took a noticeable hit.
I complained to higher-ups and they told me "oh it's definitely a skill getting the prompt written correctly", which was patronizing and irritating. Would I rather spend time getting good at asking the proprietary magic thinky box to maybe write good code this time, or would I rather get better at coding?
I mean I’ve spent a lot of time writing regex to automate large sets of changes. Sometimes it can be a bit fiddly to get the regex just so. Like replacing direct field access with > getters where you have to find the field access and change .foo to .getFoo() and the capitalization can take a couple of tries to get just right.
At least you're learning more about regexes when you do this. Yes, there's menial bullshit in coding. There's menial bullshit in every field. Some of it gets abstracted away (syntax highlighting to help with comprehension), some of it gets kicked around and ultimately does not impress (VB's drag-and-drop coding), and some of it stays because it's necessary. Nobody likes doing manual stuff, but sometimes it's preferable to trying to automate it.
Also, I've never heard of anyone paying $20 a month for the privilege of not writing in cursive, or being unable to write because they don't have internet. Something to think about.