Working in a modern software development team is very rewarding and a lot of fun. Nowadays it seems most teams are autonomous, working tightly together, moving as one. Often using pair or even mob programming techniques. Scrumming in the morning and turning on a dime shipping to production several times during the day. This fast paced, hands on approach gets a lot of stuff done and I love it. But sometimes I miss the days where I could sit for hours with some good and loud music in my ears in complete flow state just playing around with my own ideas and the computer.