> Once building things is truly trivial, and it becomes just a matter of manpower and money, will it still be fun? I've been building things literally for 30 y

> Once building things is truly trivial, and it becomes just a matter of manpower and money, will it still be fun? I've been building things literally for 30 years and I can still have amazing experiences and excitement with new projects. The reality is if you "stay current" keep up with changes in tech learn new things all the time you can continue to be challenged all the time. The first project I wrote was in BASIC on a Model 100 and now I write systems that process 4 BILLION transactions a day at 45,000 trx/second in 10ms.. There will always be challenges the real challenge is continuous learning and putting yourself in situations where you can be challenged. And by the way management isn't as horrible as it sounds, when you have a lot of experience sharing that with a young smart passionate team of developers is very rewarding. Even more rewarding is building that team and solving really big problems together. Life is a journey not a destination. Don't worry about where it ends, it begins today and that's the important part!