sir_unix

I studied CS as an undergrad at an Ivy and my programming skills were above average. After graduating I entered consulting and am now a growth equity investor. I like my job, but there's always a part of me that regrets studying a subject I deeply enjoyed for four years and then stepping away from it. A few things are driving me to get back into programming so I can become proficient again and start building. First, the AI rush is obviously going to result in lots of new companies and opportunities (aka ways to make money). Second, I feel like I would be remiss to completely lose my coding skillset (especially with all the copilot-like tools that make it so much easier now). My problem is I never coded outside of a class environment, and I haven't even done that in years. Does anyone have suggestions on projects to work on, bootcamps, etc. that I can do in my spare time to become proficient at coding again? Would like to avoid things like leetcode, project euler, etc. and instead focus on actually developing useful software (however trivial) to ramp up on basic software engineering principles / best practices.