Same here. I do not usually enjoy programming as an craft but the act of building something is what is loveable experience.
The challenge I often face is having an entire _mental model_ of what I want to build already crystallized in my head, but then the realization that it will take hours of coding to actually convert that to code... That can be incredibly demotivating.
Exactly. It's even hard to get started sometimes.
AI coding has removed the drudgery for me. It made coding 10X more enjoyable.