Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
I work in a company that was started by the devs themselves. I went from hearing “the code is the best documentation!” (No it isn’t, it’s spaghetti) to “every task should be done in, at most, a day” (and now we have more support tickets and open PRs nobody has time to look at than ever)
Meanwhile I just feel more and more burnt out. The worst is the mental load of having to wrangle the tool that actively works against me and generates bad code faster than I’m able to write good code.
I work in a company that was started by the devs themselves. I went from hearing “the code is the best documentation!” (No it isn’t, it’s spaghetti) to “every task should be done in, at most, a day” (and now we have more support tickets and open PRs nobody has time to look at than ever)
Meanwhile I just feel more and more burnt out. The worst is the mental load of having to wrangle the tool that actively works against me and generates bad code faster than I’m able to write good code.