You haven't fallen out of love with programming, you have grown disenchanted with The Love of the Toolchain. The almighty toolchain, long and powerful, and you

You haven't fallen out of love with programming, you have grown disenchanted with The Love of the Toolchain. The almighty toolchain, long and powerful, and you Cannot Program Without It (nevermind actual history). The check-in, check-out. The issues and the Jira boards, or any kind of boards. And then there's probably a lot of Agile junk to go with it. I shifted into a job where programming enhanced the role. Now I expend mental effort on coming up with novel algorithms. My struggle is to express how I think in terms a computer will understand, rather than wrestling with the Jormungandr of what the profession has turned into.