I'm 45 and I feel exactly the same way.

Such a big part of coding becomes mundane after a while. Constantly solving variations of the same kinds of problems.

Now Claude does it at my direction and I get so much more done!

But maybe even more important: It gets me to go outside my comfort zone and try things I wouldn't normally try because of the time it would take me to figure it out.

Like: Wat if I used this other audio library? I don't have to figure it out, I just pass in the interface I need to implement and get 90% of a working solution.

AI augmented programming couldn't have come at a better time and I'm really happy with it!