Speaking of which, my son is utterly stoked about the F1 race in Melbourne this weekend. Without a shred of evidence, I've decided that it's Kimi Antonelli's year. See you all in a few days :)
Overall I would say that coding brings me joy, but if I'm being honest, it's also escapism. Sometimes you drift from just doing what you love to wrapping yourself up in it, hoping never to be found.
I've watched goal-oriented devs transition easily to LLM-based flows, but process-oriented devs are really suffering. It's easy to say that I can write code however I like, but that isn't how it feels.
Recently I've been thinking a lot about what my life would be like if I just stopped programming. As I age, I'm not sure I can afford to have a hobby that is both all-consuming and totally sedentary—it's starting to take a certain toll.
The feeling is like being on a long bus trip, and suddenly, without explanation, every other passenger lights a cigarette. When something is ubiquitous, you can choose how to interact with it, but you can't choose whether you interact with it.
