There&#x27;s some amount of zen to it. Your job is no longer to be the best coder yourself, it&#x27;s to make everyone else the best coders they can be. I don&#x27;t have kids yet, but I can imagine some similarities.<p>On the other hand, once a month or so I hide from the office for an afternoon&#x2F;night and replace some infrastructure or build an internal tool that&#x27;s never going to get prioritized. Everyone&#x27;s happy about it, and you get to feel like a bit of a hero :)