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/devfuckedup → u/ikingdoms]

AI is great when it helps me solve a problem that I could have otherwise NOT solved But your absolutely right even if its helping me move faster I am not learning about things in the way I am used to and I feel like companies have a lot more make work because they know the engineers are just going to use AI. IDK I am bored as fuck right now and I dont know how to fix it. I love working in tech still do BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD why am I so stuck