I've always been interested in "building". Programming was always just the means to do so.

I got into it at a very young age, but the syntax and the languages were just the means to an end of building and creating. I'm academically interested in algorithms and data structures and distributed systems architectures, but I have no desire to actually code those things by hand.

You're probably not hand-writing your software in assembler.

Next to nobody will be writing code in 2050. It was always just a stepping stone.