I went into this field because I love programming. I didn't even know how well these jobs paid until my junior year of college when I got an internship at AWS. I constantly programmed and read programming texts in my spare time growing up, in college, and after work.

I love AI tools. I can have AI do the boring parts. I can even have to write polished, usable apps in languages that I don't know.

I miss being able to think so much about architecture, best practices, frameworks/languages, how to improve, etc.