I spent the majority of my life programming. Commodore 64 back when I was a kid, then I left the computer for a couple of years and got back into it in my teens

I spent the majority of my life programming. Commodore 64 back when I was a kid, then I left the computer for a couple of years and got back into it in my teens. After a couple of promotions, and some shift in focus, I found myself, at work, not programming at all. It wasn't a sudden change, it happened over a couple of years. That's when I found that I need programming in my life for the sake of programming. I want to write code for the experience of writing code. Today, I do write some code for work, but most of the code that I write, I write for entertainment—and for myself. Advent of Code makes December the best month of the year for me. So, I agree with the sentiment of the article in general, but programming can also be valuable in itself.