I'm nigh on 50 and feel very differently. I honestly loved the 2010s and the adoption of frameworks, SaaS, continuous deployment, cloud and even agile. Deliveri

I'm nigh on 50 and feel very differently. I honestly loved the 2010s and the adoption of frameworks, SaaS, continuous deployment, cloud and even agile. Delivering software felt a lot more professional and less artisan which I really appreciated. I can fondly recall opening 4 ssh windows and running tail -f on every prod server log, but using New Relic or the like is just way, way better. It feels more satisfying to clearly define a feature and deploy it with certainty. It may also be a product of just moving up the seniority ranks and being more exposed to business. All that being said, I think a side effect of being this age is not really enjoying anything as much as I used to. Coding is still fun, but the magic faded a while ago. My oldest kid is applying to college and she loves coding, but I'm nudging her to do either math or engineering because just learning CS doesn't seem like it's going to be as rewarding as it was 25 years ago.