[JohnMakin]

almost every job ive ever had has been to build stuff. frequently programming is used to build stuff. programming is not my job, building stuff is. it’s perfectly normal (and a sign of a more mature engineer, imho) to prefer building stuff to the annoying stuff that gets in the way of building stuff, especially since many languages are obnoxious to work with.

[polishdude20]

I agree. I'm hired to build stuff and make it work. I get satisfaction from building stuff people want and use. If I can use an LLM to help me focus more on what the user wants in all for it.

I feel good because real humans are using what I've built and they like it.

[Sharlin]

Yes; in particular English is an incredibly obnoxious language to try to build software with. (Replace English with any natural language if you want.)

[kiitos]

building stuff is the application of programming, not the platonic form of it

if you see programming as a necessary but ultimately annoying means to an end, that's fine, you do you, but there are many other folks who don't look at it that way, and they're no more or less right or wrong than you are