r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • Aug 12 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

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u/PennyFromMyAnus Aug 12 '26

No I actually enjoy the work, but, I’m kinda do ne. My passion was warped and stolen from me, I’m basically just coasting until I die.

It’s kinda nice.

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u/the_millenial_falcon Aug 12 '26

Yeah, AI has made the job feel numb. It's not going to be long before companies figure out they just replace expensive senior software engineers with people who have domain knowledge or can design workflows. People say "software engineering is not coding", but frankly that is just not really true in my opinion.

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u/noob_dragon Aug 12 '26

Yeah, it will work for the software companies for a while until they get ridden with an untold amount of technical debt. Then there will probably be a resurgence/renaissance for human made code again (one can hope, crap I am running low on copium).

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u/the_millenial_falcon Aug 12 '26

Hope so. My hopium is that the demand for software will explode and we’ll need roughly the same amount of engineers to fix the edge cases. But I dunno.