In the second half of my 40s now and I'm in the same boat. I started slapping keys on a c64 when I was 2 years old. Really enjoyed software development until 10-15 years ago. With the current LLM tooling available the number of systems I've been able to build that are novel and tackle significant problems has been kind of mind blowing over the past 8 months or so.

Staying up late, hacking away at stuff like I used to, and it's been a blast.

Finally, Homeworld was awesome and it felt magical playing it.