> If not, why did you even study that?

I like to make computers do the things I want. Since I was a kid, the satisfaction from programming or any sort of "computer engineering" (using the word engineering VERY loosely here) is in making something specific happen.

Sometimes, that means understanding the correct data structure to use, picking the right algorithm, and other computer science-y things.

Other times, and more often (for me), it means death by a thousand papercuts in managing third party dependencies, boilerplate, and other tedium and minutia.

I'm not someone who is "proud" of barely coding anymore, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the "structural soundness" of using LLMs this way (most of my coding is personal/hobbyist work), but I can confidently say that I don't really code just because I love coding, at least necessarily. I like making stuff.