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It feels that way to me. The grass was definitely emerald beautiful green when I got to the other side. I love my new career, where I get to learn constantly while not taking on massive life or death or legal risk.
Yes, I am a bit obsessed with building software and writing code that is very human readable, maintainable etc, down to class names, file naming an structure etc. I then comment my code where something is not obvious. I agree totally, programming is not really about being a syntax genius, but about the humans and teams and how you get the whole human system working.
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Probably stuff like how to write scalable, performant, easy to read and easy to maintain code and how to interface safely (oh-er!) with other parts of whatever technology stack is being used.
On topic, It's interesting to think that becoming some kind of programmer could be seen as 'breaking free of professional life' but whatever works, works.