Comment by michaelrpeskin

I said this in another comment a few weeks back - but, at least for me the "joy" of software development was describing what I wanted and getting it. That used to mean fighting with code and trying to be clever and clean or following the right design pattern. But now, I get "joy" from using English to describe my problem and getting the right answer. When the LLM one-shots it, I get the feedback that I'm describing things correctly and clearly. I'm still getting the same joy just in a different form now. I'm old enough and have been doing this long enough that "giving up writing code" is not sad for me. I'm still expressing my ideas, just differently now.