[lapcat]

Am I unusual in enjoying both?

Earlier in my career, I was stereotyped as a "maintainer", but now I've been a self-employed indie developer for years, so all of the code is mine.

Once your own code gets to be 5 years old or so, it's almost like maintaining someone else's code. It's like, why in the world did I write that before??

I guess my focus has always been on the product and the user experience, so I don't make the code itself central to my work and my identity. The code is not the product.