I really enjoy writing some of the code. But some is a pain. Never have fun when the HQ team asks for API changes for the 5th time this month. Or for that matter writing the 2000 lines of input and output data validation in the first place. Or refactoring that ugly dictionary passed all over the place to be a proper class/dataclass. Handling config changes. Lots of that piping job.

Some tasks I do enjoy coding. Once in the flow it can be quite relaxing.

But mostly I enjoy the problem solving part: coming up with the right algorithm, a nice architecture , the proper set of metrics to analyze etc