> I miss those times because now everything feels insanely more layered and complex.

For me it was GW-BASIC and no editor as we know them today.

That was instant gratification, rapid development, no silly layers. It was pretty pure. It is what hooked me.

In a sense, agentic coding, has brought back the excitement to building software for me because I don’t have to wrangle all the crazy enterprise or other modern development considerations directly. There’s a closer connection between thought and result, which is what was the magic that captured my imagination.