[jauntywundrkind]

It gives you enormous ability to engage the world. That is fantastically intrinsically rewarding. There's few things that expand what you can see & work like this, and that's amazing.

Personally I think it's also likely to stay a good profession too. On its own. But also these skills will be incredibly useful to have in a wide variety of other professional. Even with LLMs most people can't and won't speak computer, and having the agency to poke around, to understand, to make stuff happen is an incredible compliment to bring to any job that involves technology. And that's most of them!

There's few fields that open up so much to you. If you have the passion to understand the world, to stay learning, this is a remarkable place.