I work alone, on software that supports my main business. I have fewer collaboration and scaling issues.

I find ops tedious. Simple things like serving a website or monitoring uptime and builds is slow and annoying. However if I don't automate those things I have to do them myself. I find it hard to get all the important messages pushed to me instead of checking a bunch of different things.

Sometimes it feels like there's a bunch of yak shaving involved in making your code run in production.