I think also as a kid who grew up with a C64.. part of the fun is keeping a little sense of wonder and really PUSH the tools, in this case the LLMs to their limit.

I think I always had fun learning all the little knobs that a programming language would give you and where they made solving problems easier or more elegant.

You can get the same joy from working with an LLM when you have things setup correctly for example and you can say "handle these boring tickets for me" and if just "works" and works well.