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that's the thing tho
coding was always "just a job" to me, it's part of why I burned out
I do enjoy some minor coding as a hobby when I'm free to make actually good software I guess
but the strictures of professional dev do not allow you to make good software
my skills deteriorated because the stuff I wanted to learn to do my job better felt futile, because it would never be adopted, and I'm frankly not doing Java/Spring dev unless I'm getting paid for it
but I'm still not gonna hand-in fucking copilot slop because I have to have SOME self-respect