It's funny, when I started I found programming tedious and thought that writing some software with 100 layers of abstractions so computers can talk to other com

It's funny, when I started I found programming tedious and thought that writing some software with 100 layers of abstractions so computers can talk to other computers was boring and soul-sucking. I liked designing small embedded systems that actually did something in real life with a simple program in C or C++ driving the whole thing. Then one thing led to another and I got a job more on the pure software side of things, and realized as long as there is some interesting problem to solve it's really not so bad what the end application is. I find a lot of these comments are depressing. I feel like no matter how complicated the stack becomes, computers are made by humans and therefore can be understood by other humans. I always pity people working in medicine who have to debug what seems like a proof-of-concept that has been endlessly patched by evolution for the past few million years into a working product. But hey, I only have 5-ish years experience working full time as an engineer so I guess I'm still a baby. I wonder how I'll feel about all this 15 years down the road.