We can just throw prompts without understanding and caring about output. This way we can build something in 10 min we don't own.

We can also do real engineering with our architecture design, thinking about what exactly are we building and why, being critical about produced output. This way of building takes more time, but this is something we built ourselves and can be potentially more fulfilling. And this is not something anyone can copy with right prompt. There are more nuances than AI-generated code.

Another way to find fulfillment is to focus more on solving a real problem and building something people will use. Less on writing a code.

Why? Because I can finally make rapid progress on ideas I've had that would have taken me years to develop by myself. I enjoy the outputs. Only the outputs.

There is genuinely no flow state for me. It is a grinding list of frustrations I handle whenever the agent falls short of my expectations.

It is assembly work in that sense. I am an order of magnitude more productive, but the work itself is not intrinsically enjoyable the way coding used to be.

I am a factory worker churning out features as I monitor the LLM agent and its outputs. There is no craft. Only productivity.

I do not mind because I was never a very competent programmer to begin with, so there is no major loss on my part. This black box produces what I truly want, but I will not pretend it has any meaning for me. It provides no more meaning to me than cranking a lever for hours on end.

But I love seeing my ideas come to life. These distant dreams I had only in my head are suddenly walking and breathing after years of only thinking about them.

You think it is easy because your ability to tune the AI is excellent, but in reality, you are intuitively and easily doing things that others cannot.

Just get to the heart of what people want. Talk to people and help them. Most humans on Earth, at least, aren't technical.

I find that internal frustrations are solved by external validation. Seeing someone happy and joyful from my work, makes it all worth it.