Programming in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s was a much more fun experience, overall I think, because I was able to just write code most of the time. These days i

Programming in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s was a much more fun experience, overall I think, because I was able to just write code most of the time. These days it is mostly dealing with all the plumbing issues to logistically handle the code (CI/CD, devops, k8s, terraform, etc) plus reading code and PRs and RFCs and tweaking existing code for bug fixes and optimizations and such. The code we are creating and working on is fantastic and of a mind-blowing scale solving amazing problems, but I really miss the days of just doing greenfield work. Just writing pages and pages of code. I think there are jobs out there like that, but they are relatively rare anymore.