I'm only forty but ditto.

Been programming off and on since I was a kid, though I went into a career of systems architect instead, because I found the actual process of churning out code kinda tedious.

But I still had all these ideas in my head that I wanted to make reality, and now I finally can.

A project that would normally take weeks, and significantly affect the rest of my life, now only takes hours.

But remember that all those projects need to be maintained too, you can't just release a bunch of new code into the open source ecosystem without maintaining it.