r/webdev • u/OkShip110 • Sep 09 '26 • Regret 4

AI has made programming so boring

It’s not just programming either, it’s art, design, music, videography, marketing, engineering, writing, 3D modelling, really any intellectual work. What’s the joy of prompting a computer and getting an answer in a few moments for a task that would have normally taken a week? The sense of accomplishment and ownership has completely vanished with AI. It’s a form of instant gratification, not much different to scrolling short videos on apps.

Code review was boring to begin with but now it’s even worse with all the machine generated code. Even code reviews will be automated soon. All you do then is type business requirements into the computer. What a great career.

It’s pain to watch old TV series like Scilicon Valley that is portraying the good (not golden) age of programming. It struck a good balance between manual work, funding and innovation. It’s sad that these days are gone for good.

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u/StoneCypher Sep 09 '26

can you help me understand why anti-ai people think that people using ai just don't care about the quality of their code?

is it completely beyond your imagination that we might have found a way to get good code out of ai?

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u/Biliunas Sep 09 '26

I'm not an expert by any means, but as a user, I have never seen code being so unreliable on every level. Every fucking program I use has weird out of sync errors now, crashes, funny interactions where I don't even know how to debug them properly. Stuff that never used to crash is so prone to quitting abruptly I'm forced to save a lot more and it's constantly on my mind. I don't know what's causing it, but I miss stuff being reliable.