Programming is not fun when you're constrained by people, methodologies, or technologies that you don't agree with on the inside. It's great fun when you do it

Programming is not fun when you're constrained by people, methodologies, or technologies that you don't agree with on the inside. It's great fun when you do it at home, or on a small team of like-minded people, because you get to pick what you work on and how. The more other people are pushing you to make choices that you wouldn't make yourself, the less fun it is, because that's basically the essence of stress.