I'm still enjoying it, but in a different way now. I don't mind using agents to write code. I kinda like it honestly. I just shifted my curiosity to the harness. Putting together the best workflow I can to get the least amount of garbage. Diving in when it inevitably turns to garbage, and refactoring.

Then again, I spent a long time working with contractors that slopped code. I have grown used to slop for well past a decade, it's just who creates the slop that changed.

Would I prefer it never got this far and we just had lots of tech jobs? Yes. Do I think we can get back to that even with AI? Also yes.