[hyperfuturism]

Interesting to hear about your perspective.

I’ve always been on the other side of the coin, programming has always been a means to and end, not an end itself.

[KronisLV]

> I’ve always been on the other side of the coin, programming has always been a means to and end, not an end itself.

This point of view is actually validating to hear. Now, on my own time, I do enjoy programming and even dabbling in things like gamedev, but at the same time I don't seek out difficult problems in particular - it's more about the end result.

When it comes to professional work, I have an even more conservative perspective: to just pick well known tools to solve problems in ways that have been proven to work over the years, ideally without blazing new trails and working on stuff nobody has ever done before.

In regards to technologies, that also means lots of Debian or Ubuntu, relational databases and boring back end languages like .NET or Java, with whatever is stable enough for the front end, but then again, the people shopping or submitting forms or whatever won't necessarily care whether you use NoSQL, serverless functions, or something else entirely.