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The whole thing with gen AI is so depressing to me. For the first time now I can feel the joy of what I do slipping away from me. I don't even mind my employer
by JeremyNT 1y ago
The whole thing with gen AI is so depressing to me.
For the first time now I can feel the joy of what I do slipping away from me. I don't even mind my employer capturing more productivity, but I do mind if all the things I love about the job are done by robots instead.
Maybe I'm in the minority but I love writing code! I love writing tests! If I wanted to ask for this stuff to be done for me, I would be a manager!
Now, I'll need to use gen AI to replace the fun part of the job, or I'll be put out to pasture.
It's not a future I look forward to, even if I'm able to keep up and continue working in the industry.
- CuriouslyC 1y agoThe fun part for me was coming up with ideas for new things, then architecting those things, creating the high level systems to implement them, and iterating on them to make them better. Figuring out why some test harness wasn't mocking some random thing correctly, remembering which api call had which syntax, or just writing a bajillion almost-boilerplate endpoints was always drudgery and I'm glad to be rid of it.