I simply type it out equanimously. The attachment to speed is neither here nor there. It will end up on the screen in due time.

Sure, if I had enough time.

But I have more software I want to write than I have time, between my day job, my kids and family, chores, other hobbies, etc.

I had so many projects I wanted to do, but when I thought about all of the work that went into each one, I realized I didn't have time to do them and they were pushed to the back burner.

These last few months I have been able to get to so many of those back burner projects because I don't need nearly as much time anymore.

I think you're talking about the flow state, which makes sense. I've said it before there was an aspect to programming that was almost meditative, that zone where ideas flow easily into code. I do miss that experience. (I also suspect the lack of it contributes to the burnout reported by heavy AI coders.)

Unfortunately, most modern software development is atrocious, full of distractions and incidental complexity and tangential issues that are not conducive to staying in the flow. Latent bugs and dependency quirks and environment issues that force you into some irrelevant sidequest were the most frustrating. Like, this video is the prefect analogy for modern software development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

I do NOT miss that experience and I'm glad to let the agents take care of it.