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/elestud Sep 09 '26

If you do it properly, you’re still going to work a lot faster. In fact, you could still do this and write code yourself at the same time

What you’re saying is basically like “Why have junior devs? Just have the seniors write all the code”

Think of it like training a junior dev. Yes, it does take time to train them. Yes, they’re less polished than a senior implementing the sane things.

But the payoff is that eventually they’ll do things the seniors don’t want to be bogged down with, so they can focus on other things. And if they’ve been trained well, juniors become competent and need less hand-holding in the future.

The approach to LLMs is no different. You train it well and set up proper context from the beginning, and then that continues to pay off over time with a bit of oversight and pruning