I kind of agree. There's another world, where software lasts a really long time, it's a much better world, but just a few of us get to live in it. Building too

I kind of agree. There's another world, where software lasts a really long time, it's a much better world, but just a few of us get to live in it. Building tools for other engineers is where it's at, the library maintainers for long lived libraries, like libc or any collections library. If you get a sorting algorithm in a mainstream language library, it will likely live forever (or forever-ish in software terms). The harder the problem you solve (in the math sense) the more likely that if you craft that code properly and carefully, it will outlive you.