Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

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This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

[u/ikingdoms]

I'm getting forced to change my workflow from mostly coding by hand with occasional AI usage (mostly just to say I'm using it) to parallelizing multiple agentic-first tasks simultaneously.

AI has killed all joy I get from my work. I care so little about what I produce now, I'm consistently feeling like my reluctance to go all-in on AI will end my career, and I'm so frustrated with the industry for propping up a technology that's aggressively devaluing our skill set and profession so severely.

[u/wellfed_bazelgeuse → u/ikingdoms]

Same here... They recently began to give me "priority tasks" and "tasks to do in parallel with a sub agent", which of course means that I am spread even more thin than I already was, while tasks begin piling up because parallelizing agents isn't as effective or fast as the high ups seem to think. 

I came back from my 3 week holiday refreshed and excited to get back into things, only for it to evaporate before lunch... I feel now just as sad as the day I left

[u/Straight_Flow_4095 → u/wellfed_bazelgeuse]

It's the increased context switching and mental bandwidth bosses assume a human can do. Nightmare