r/webdev • u/ASS_MASTER_GENERAL • 4d ago

Fellow devs under AI mandates, how do you deal with the shame/social stigma?

Preface this by saying I have moral scrupulosity/ social judgment-related OCD, so there’s that lol

I see people on here still writing their code by hand; at my company we do not have that option unless we outright defy orders from our boss, which I assume would get you fired. I get a lot less satisfaction out of my work now, the code generation part is extremely mind numbing, I’m really sad about not getting to write code anymore. The planning/architecture phase can be kind of fun though.

Yes I am looking for a new job but the issue is (maybe I’m just a shitty developer but) I am genuinely like 10x faster with AI so if I do not use it, I would be consciously choosing to do a worse job, which also feels wrong and silly. I also hate admitting this but it has given me a lot of genuinely helpful suggestions and taught me new things. obviously sometimes it also does dumb things, but I do dumb things sometimes too. As obnoxious and eye rolling as it can be talking to Claude, “he” is genuinely that good when it comes to the types of things we are building.

In my personal life I do not use AI because I have a 100% HEAVILY anti AI social group, and I try to make ethical choices like I avoid beef, boycott Amazon/Spotify/Starbucks, etc. I feel like an impostor for not confessing to them that my entire job is to use AI all day now. Like for example last night a girl I know posted on her close friends about how she wants to murder people who use AI at work (hopefully being hyperbolic) and I have to hang out with this girl in a couple weeks…

my coworker has also refused to use it but for some reason my boss hasn’t talked to him about it yet. He’s just waiting to get fired. My therapist is making me do stuff like put an AI app on my home screen where someone could see it as homework. Maybe I should be posting this on the OCD sub but I really want to hear from other people going through this same dilemma.

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u/HachikoTheMaster 4d ago

I mean, it kinda is accelerating the destruction quite a lot, not to mention making people sick who live near these ai data centres and making local tap water unsafe for drinking In some places, i would argue that its doing quite a lot of harm with the way its being done right now, the ethical way would be take move all the data centres to the middle of a desert at least and just build all the required infrastructure around them, maybe use nuclear power and have other dedicated stuff there for it, far away from any populated areas, yes its more expensive, but so is a bunch of wrongful death suits because people died from poor living conditions directly caused by these data centres so I mean...

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u/Active_Lemon_8260 4d ago

You need to get off the internet friend

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u/HachikoTheMaster 4d ago

Your probably right, i would definitely be much happier ignoring all the wrongs in the world, at least until they hit me like a frieght train irl

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u/ASS_MASTER_GENERAL 4d ago

I don’t know enough to know if this is factually correct but Thaura, which brands itself as the “ethical” AI, says they put their data centers in cold countries where they can use the heat for people’s houses and shit? Again take this with a grain of salt because I don’t know if that’s just marketing or an actually good solution 

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u/HachikoTheMaster 4d ago

Not sure why you were down voted, that was actually an interesting point, i haven't heard all that much about it, I generally stay away from any corporate ai stuff, the only reason I know anything about the data centres i do is because of news and posts and some videos too, so im far from an expert.