Absolutely not. I still love the art of programming. The clack of a mechanical keyboard, the satisfaction of using vim keybindings, the emotional feeling of dis

Absolutely not. I still love the art of programming. The clack of a mechanical keyboard, the satisfaction of using vim keybindings, the emotional feeling of discovering an elegant solution - it’s still all so addicting. I still relive the first moment I got an LED to light up on a breadboard because of some C++ code I wrote. I got started programming (for real) much later than most software engineers, although I always loved computers. I wrote my first LED program for Arduino when I was 23. At the time, I had no idea how deep the field of computer science was, nor how intertwined it is with disparate fields like philosophy, psychology, and linguistics. I strongly resist the demands placed by Agile-shops that we all behave like interchangeable cogs in a gearbox.