I'm retired and I don't want to give my age here but I can see that I have more days behind me than ahead of me, and over the years I've created a growing list or projects that I've wanted to do. AI is letting me work on them, experiment, and most importantly see what's interesting and worthwhile to pursue without spending, or wasting, years going down rabbit holes that might not pan out.

What helps is that some of these projects are more data analysis than creating software, and the goal is an answer more than maintainable software.