Been doing it for ten years still love the profession as much if not more than when I started, but the joy of software development for me was always in seeing my idea come to life, in exploring all the clever ways people had solved so many problems, in trying to become as good at the craft as they were, and in sharing those solutions and ideas with like-minded peers.

I care deeply about the code quality that goes into the projects I work on because I end up having to maintain it, review it, or fix it when it goes south, and honestly it just feels wrong to me to see bad code.

But literally typing out the characters that make up the code? I could care less. I've done that already. I can do it in my sleep, there's no challenge.

At this stage in my career I'm looking for ways to take the experience I have and upskill my teams using it.

I'd be crazy not to try and leverage LLMs as much as possible. That includes spending the time to write good CLAUDE.md files, set up custom agents that work with our codebase and patterns, it also includes taking the time to explain the why behind those choices to the team so they understand them, calling out bad PRs that "work" but are AI slop and teaching them how to get better results out of these things.

Idk man the profession is pretty big and creating software is still just as fun as when I was doing it character by character in notepad. I just don't care to type more than I need to when I can focus on problem solving and building.