Would you rather make every software you want but give up coding, or keep coding but always for somebody else's project?

Only if I can make everything I wanted and still makes money

@devTea I'll assume you picked the first one, and yeah, ideas comes from your mind directly to your bank account, but no development involved on your end :)

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I like the process more than the subject. And I'd rather implement my own ideas personally.

The first one. Programming is a means to solving a problem. Good developers know that the code you never have to write is the best code (it has no bugs, simplifies the codebase, and doesn't need to be maintained), and that their job is fundamentally to solve problems. I've seen so many developers hop straight to churning out code when there was an easier *and better* nontechnical solution to a problem; this question just feels like an extreme extension of that.