I don't want to necessarily draw general truths just from my XP. I think it's a spectrum :) When I compare programming (as in, just writing code) today and 20

I don't want to necessarily draw general truths just from my XP. I think it's a spectrum :) When I compare programming (as in, just writing code) today and 20 years ago, there is nothing really interesting to write anymore. We have libraries for everything, and half of them are clients to integrate with a SaaS that does what you want. The challenges I see that still makes the job stimulating are more found in the architecture design (we have all the building blocks now, but we still need to organize it all in a way that works) and the product (as I said, making sense of business reqs and turning them into something do-able).