I’m a programmer (well half my job) because I was a short (still short) fat (I got better) kid with a computer in the 80s.

Now, the only reason I code and have been since the week I graduated from college was to support my insatiable addictions to food and shelter.

While I like seeing my ideas come to fruition, over the last decade my ideas were a lot larger than I could reasonably do over 40 hours without having other people working on projects I lead. Until the last year and a half where I could do it myself using LLMs.

Seeing my carefully designed spec that includes all of the cloud architecture get done in a couple of days - with my hands on the wheel - that would have taken at least a week with me doing some work while juggling dealing with a couple of other people - is life changing