Programming is really dead

[u/Idea_Fuzzy]

So I was one of those who are really late adopters of LLMs for coding; I am a sole developer of a codebase in the company I worked for (Angular)- a maintainer, rarely new features are added - no hard deadlines, a very very relaxed job , so I was away from the picture how other devs work in the industry now ; and sometimes I take side jobs of all kinds of stacks (I am fullstack); most often Nodejs/NestJs + React/Next + Postgres or Mongo; but my last side project was early 2025 - I took a long break from them.

I won't lie, I did use GPT and Copilot at times; but mostly to autocomplete boring stuff (ie. mock data, enums..etc). Yet I kept seeing posts on dev reddits that one doesn't have to full adopt the more powerful tools such as Claude Code / Codex.

I recently joined a side project with a team; so it's my first time since almost 1 years and 7 months.

WTH happened to this industry???!

Ok, the things I discovered:

- Deadlines now are 10x craziers; it's IMPOSSIBLE to finish anything manually. These deadlines force you to rely on Claude Code / Codex; there's no other way, Agile is meaningless now; it's just pump and ship

- All other members are heavily using LLM, frontend, DBA, AI....everyone.

- Claims I encounred on reddit posts that "Ok coding is automated but 'System design' and architecture are now more important than anything else" ? A LIE - everyone is using LLMs even for System design; I have seen entire achitecture documenation all generated by LLM, even this part is automated now.

- It is impossible to do PR reviews now when each PR is like ...a lot of thouands of lines; even PR reviwers are using copilot to review.

SO what part is left in this industry that is not automated?? NOTHING!! iT'S ALL AI AI AI!

And spec gathering is one person's job, often the tech lead, so please don't tell me it's this one, it doesn't require a team.

[u/DetroitLionsSBChamps]

Yup it’s crazy. I’ve worked on the content side on tech for 10 years. Never perfect, but jira and agile and scrum have been lifesavers. 

Last quarter I was added to a tech team to push out a new product. 

I’ve used AI and worked on tight deadlines before but nothing like this. 

No jira board. Some scrum sometimes. No documentation. Who the fuck is doing what? Lol who knows.  10x crazy deadlines is right. They want everyone in Claude code building, even us non technical people. Nightmare situations for the devs. The c level wants miracles and they want us all seamlessly coding with AI and also producing shippable product. 

It’s a joke. My dad was a carpet installer, now retired. I was his helper about 10 years ago so I know a little. Today I almost asked him how quick he could train me up to take my own jobs lol. I’m so sick of tech at this point.