The secret is that looking to work as a way to fulfill that desire to build and create is not a good idea. The existence of industrial farming takes no joy from my backyard garden. My usage of Gen AI doesn’t diminish the wonder I feel building projects at home.

Looking to corporate work as an out for your creative desires never really worked out. Sure there was a brief golden age where if you worked at a big tech company you could find it but the vast majority of engineers do utilitarian work. As a software engineer your job as always been to drive business value.