I'm 73 (all the way retired). I'm in love with creating software again.
I wrote my first computer program in 1967. Since, it's been one fascinating thing after another but, for me, the modern age had become dull. The thought of figuring out another API or framework makes me need a nap.
Now I can have an idea, negotiate with Milo (Claude Code integrated with a neo4j graph database because now I can!) and it's off to the races.
Did I learn CYPHER, the neo4j query language? Nope. Am I the master of Agent SDK? Nope. Milo is my cognitive partner. I am inspired.
Ideas I had years ago are off the back burner. More new ideas flood my brain. I am set free. It feels like love. I lay awake at night thinking of things to do.
I am so grateful that I lived to see this day and still have the intellectual flexibility to enjoy it.
All that rhetoric and no output. Enjoy the hamster wheel.