I identify with this, though I'm further along the path. Coding was incredibly fun until working in capitalist companies got involved. It was then still fairy

I identify with this, though I'm further along the path. Coding was incredibly fun until working in capitalist companies got involved. It was then still fairy fun, but tinged by some amount of "the company is just trying to make money, it doesn't care that the pricing sucks and it's inefficient, it's more profitable to make mediocre software with more features than really nail and polish any one part" Adding on AI impacts how fun coding is for me exactly how they say, and that compounds with company's misaligned incentives. ... I do sometimes think maybe I'm just burned out though, and I'm looking for ways to rationalize it, rather than doing the healthy thing and quitting my job to join a cult-like anti-technology commune.