Maybe I took "the part of the job that was my favorite (writing code)" too literally but quite literally, there are people who say this is the joy for them, the entering and writing of code, and shared this point of view on HN before, it wouldn't be the first time somehow said so. Maybe it's you who are being a bit insensitive here, as clearly some people do like that particular activity.

Regardless, I apologize if I misunderstood "writing code", I take that to mean "typing code" as the other stuff we do around is more "problem solving" than anything else, regardless of what the activity is (thinking, designing, troubleshooting, etc).

An interesting HN search for comments with "I love writing code" that has some false-positives, but has programmers stating clearly they like the action of manually typing code: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...