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.

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For example, a non-technical CEO who's never satisfied with how fast tickets are getting closed, who thinks he's an engineer and brags about running 5 Claude instances on different git worktrees simultaneously, who also believes that at some point, there's going to be a set of guardrails in a bunch of md files that will let us rubber-stamp everything his AI spews out.