In my experience, the grief goes away when you realize that making the LLM do useful stuff is very much not a solved problem and that there is ample room for cr

In my experience, the grief goes away when you realize that making the LLM do useful stuff is very much not a solved problem and that there is ample room for creativity here. And that once you fully lean into this part of software engineering, all the other stuff becomes interesting again. I highly recommend if anyone is demotivated from software engineering to write their own orchestrator or Ralph loop or sub agent system whatever it is that makes LLM actually work for you, exactly in the way you want it to work. And then to go back to your projects again. Because now the LLM is a part of you. It's no longer a vending machine, it's a gundam suit.