> I derive a lot of joy from shipping outstanding code for my clients and fixing problems they're experiencing. My joy has only increased as I can now ship better code, faster, with fewer bugs. No, I don't intimately understand the code the way I used to, but I understand it enough to accomplish the end goal.

If you’re doing this than great! More power to you. But I think you underestimate the discipline it can take to focus on a task when “coding is free”. I don’t worry that I’ll just lose my old skills. I worry that in losing my old skills I’ll lose the new skills as well. Driving is great! But I still run for exercise and occasionally to get places too. I’d be a worse driver if I was out of shape do to the loss of energy and mental clarity.