I keep writing the same kind of thing for different companies for more money every year. Started 50 years ago on an Altair 8800 in my bedroom. Now I do it in a

I keep writing the same kind of thing for different companies for more money every year. Started 50 years ago on an Altair 8800 in my bedroom. Now I do it in a docker shell on a virtual machine over a VPN on hardware in another state on contract. But it's the same damn code I'm writing. And I keep thinking "This could certainly be automated, and I know how." But do I do it? And end a whole subset of programming? Not a lot of motivation for me to do that.