I have the opposite experience around other programmers. They always have some new code idea and I'm always lost. They'll be telling me about some algorithm t

I have the opposite experience around other programmers. They always have some new code idea and I'm always lost. They'll be telling me about some algorithm they used in a weekend project and I'll just be thinking "Doesn't Excel already do that" or "I'm not a systems programmer, nobody writes their own sorting algorithm in JS" And then they never do much other than code, so conversation topics are usually depressing politics, code, or more code, but the code doesn't feel like code, it feels like philosophy in machine readable form. Sometimes I think I'd enjoy a real dedicated web dev job, just to be on a full team of people who focused on UIs and features and best practices, instead of toy apps and computer science I don't understand, and an endless quest to simplify down to the stone age.