Setting up the environment and tooling around in the code is not a burden, it's a nice change of pace from the boring code I have to deal with normally. Likewise, playing around to build intuition about how prompts and parameters correspond to neighborhoods in latent space is quite fun.

Beyond that, being able to go to sleep with my computer doing a massive batch job state space exploration and wake up with a bunch of cool stuff to look at gives me Christmas vibes daily.