I Miss Writing Code

I miss writing code. I liked taking a vague thought and gradually turning it into something that worked. Finding a small solution, realizing half the infrastructure wasn't needed, seeing the shape of a problem in a way I couldn't when I started. I know business pays for results, and I've always thought about how to help get them. But people don't choose a profession for its outputs alone. They choose it for what their days are actually made of, for the kind of thinking it asks of them, for the part they'd keep doing if nobody were paying (at least, that's true for me, hopefully it is for you too). It's being moved out because an agent can write the first version faster than I can. So now writing it myself looks like choosing to be slow, and the normal day becomes handing work over and reviewing what comes back. The part I liked is still allowed, but there's no room left for it in the day. I'd like to be able to call that loss a loss without immediately si