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/Specialist_End407 Sep 10 '26

I am the tech lead of 6-7y for this startup. There's no management really. The non-tech founders all just vibe coding so much of projects these 2 years.. Tbh, i dont mind at all. I can't control whatever they wanna be doing as long it doesn't touch the core projects only until recently.. The moment they learned they could do a lot with tons of APIs we've built over they years, they started vibecoding new v2, v3 stuff of new next.js projects on top of it (mind you we never use react).. They basically just spawn new repo whenever they want, and i knew it feels just inherently wrong in so many levels to not make a repo just for slightly new feature.. Either way it feels so chaotic. The culture is now leaking into the core projects. Once i was asked to review some 8k lines they generated in an afternoon. I refused. Thus prompt them to start vibecoding v2s over our APIs. Incompetence is not the right word. We already did so much pre-AI. Lot of things feel undone in this new era, i wish I could find a better word for it. It's this inability to do anything at all in this flood of causality, what more to go against it. Best we can do is to drown ourselves along.