My reason of getting interested in programming has been changing. When I was a kid (10yo), I loved programming because I can do graphics and audio and other ey

My reason of getting interested in programming has been changing. When I was a kid (10yo), I loved programming because I can do graphics and audio and other eye-catchy things. When I was in teens and in 20s, I loved programming because I wanted to show off cool things to friends. When I was in my 30s, I loved programming because I wanted to make/improve products that customers love. Now I'm in my late 40s, and I still love programming because it gives a way to disentangle the complexity of this world. I like thinking about social problems in terms of parameters and algorithms. Machine learning is interesting not because of what it can do, but because it gives a new perspective to interpret the world. I see politics news and tend to reframe it as a software design problem, etc. I am now certain that this field is deep enough that I can pursue it for the rest of my life. Your reason might have changed too.