Ask HN: Old hat devs, how do you feel about LLMs and how do you stay engaged?

In my 40s, head up a dev team and still cut and review code. I’m enamoured with all things AI, but I’m feeling this feeling akin to hitting IDDQD as a kid when playing doom; this isn’t fun anymore.

I sorely miss that dopamine hit when I manage to make some random compute method a million percent more performant after hours opposed to an LLM figuring it out in mere minutes, so I ask you this, what are you doing to remain excited with what you do?