A modern retelling of The Three Wishes fairy tale (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/More_English_Fairy_Tales/The_Three_Wishes) for agentic coders:
Maya had been a software developer for eight years, and she had a notebook full of ideas. Side projects she'd never started. Tools that would make her workflow smoother. A personal finance app. A better note-taking system. A browser extension she'd sketched out years ago. She'd mention these ideas to friends over coffee, and they'd say "that sounds amazing, you should build that," and she'd smile and say "maybe someday."
Someday never came. After a full day of work, the thought of starting something new felt impossible. The initial spark of motivation would fade by the time she opened her laptop. Most evenings, she'd scroll through her phone instead.