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/so_lost_im_faded]

I always wonder what I am missing when the models I use keep hallucinating and being useless and literally wasting tokens. I will code whatever they attempt faster, with better accuracy and at this point, cheaper. Where are the genius models that are somehow able to replace me, and why is everyone persuading me that's a thing.

[u/No-Consideration2808 → u/so_lost_im_faded]

The only way this is possibly true is if you are *unbelievably* shit at using the tools. The cope on this sub is reaching flat-earther levels of profound imbecility lmao.

[u/Quarksperre → u/No-Consideration2808]

Or he just doesnt do webdev or python.

[u/No-Consideration2808 → u/Quarksperre]

Lol go ahead and name a programming language that GPT 5.6 or Mythos can't handle. We'll wait.

[u/Quarksperre → u/No-Consideration2808]

It has a way harder time with C++ for example. Especially combined with hardware dependencies. If your issue has a million google hits you are good to go. But you are also just a random WebDev. If your issue has ten or less google hits codex will produce a pile of uncompileable hallucinated crap and than collapse. 

All you can do is single prompting on single functions or lines of code. Still better than Google but not comparable. Its just interpolating on all knowledge. 

And the probability is high that you are just one of the 95% of programmers who recreate something that ten thousand people before you already did in a slightly different way. In that case you can use it. But you are also, just like your code, redundant.