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Worse, is there really anything more indicative of "loser thinking" then adopting the exact same strategy as EVERY SINGLE POST on LinkedIn?

What a coincidence that all these fucking "thought leaders" have exactly the same thoughts.

Yes, I am tired; but worse, I am unhappy.

I understand that a lot of people really enjoy managing teams of agents and are far more productive now. I am happy for them, I really am. Apparently they never actually enjoyed coding, they will show up in droves in these comments to tell you that what they really enjoyed was the end result.

I am more productive too, but I'm going to be honest - I wasn't really looking for more productivity. I am at a point in my life where boosting my productivity is absolutely not one of my personal objectives.

Using Claude Code all day is like being a STEM kid that was gifted a Lego-building-robot. What a miracle! Now you don't have to deal with all the hassle of assembling Legos - you just tell it you want a castle and boom! What a time to be alive!

Yeah, I got into this field because I enjoyed solving deep technical problems mostly on my own.

Now instead I don't get to code anymore and I'm the manager of a half-dozen mid-level engineers with unflappable confidence and very, very poor long term memory.

My experience as a senior software engineer is that generative AI is an incredible productivity boost for engineers that know what they need to implement. If I need to write a new service, I'm going to be able to do that extremely quickly with Claude Code or some other agentic tooling as long as I know what I want.

However, generative AI should be banned for leadership or product owners or anyone on the requirements specification end of the Jira ticket. I'm fine with them using LLMs to read documents and learn, but generative AI specifically in the hands of these folks seems to be a net productivity drag on organizations.

I am so tired of 1,500 word Jira tickets that are over-specified to death with requirements that nobody is actually interested in and I have to spend exorbitant amounts of times just trying to distill out the functionality that the requestor is actually looking for. And these logorrheic nightmare tickets end up spawning all kinds of other unnecessary downstream work.

Can't believe Apple has finally invented touchscreens on laptops.

I think it's only "one specific craft" that's being heavily affected right now because software engineers are lazy (in a good way) and as they've been developing generative AI, automating away their own work was the natural choice.

And it has rolled out to the rest of the software engineering industry rapidly because a) it was adjacent to AI development, and b) software engineers are very expensive workers. Graphical design is also being hit due to its proximity to software engineering.

Other information workers are going to start feeling the hurt soon enough, but their respective industry timeline will be correlated with how much money it's going to save to replace them.

Paralegals, customer support, copywriters, data analysts, and any other fields that are purely informational are all going to feel the squeeze.

Well, at least he won't have to apologize to his wife for throwing her under the bus.

Yeah, I always wonder about this when I hear about people that resign from an organization in protest. Sure, they get to sleep at night now, but now they've just opened up a job for an unscrupulous person.

I mean, if you really think your organization is a net negative, perhaps your best civic effort is to just sort of linger as organizational dead weight or, better yet, as some sort of bureaucratic tar baby.

The lie is that a) it will never actually be produced for sale; and b) there seems to be evidence that it didn't have a full battery - which makes sense given, well, physics.

That people defend these antics is wild. It takes a special kind of sycophant to be lied to and to appreciate it; or I don't know, maybe it's just the regular kind.

This. I hate that Claude Code is taking the fun part of my job, but the reality is that Claude Code Opus 5 can one-shot a script in 15 seconds that would have taken me 45 minutes to write.

I don't begrudge the business for making the prudent choice of making me use AI, I just sort of lament that what I spent years enjoying and getting good at was so utterly derivative that it was perfect for the LLMs. It would be insulting if it weren't just a fact.

I don't know that anyone suggested it wasn't OK to enjoy programming.

My problem with AI is that it now excels at the part of the job that was my favorite (writing code) and it leaves me to do the part that I suck at (being a manager). In 18 months or so my job satisfaction has gone from pretty high to abysmal.

Must have worked.

My favorite part about gushing about the new age of AI development is how oblivious the authors always seem to be about the next phase.

It's always some variation of: the LLMs are incredible and gaining logical and reasoning ability at an astounding rate, but fortunately they will always need me to sit here to hit the "Enter" key.

I envy their optimism.

Is this polarization or is this just people finally figuring out the grift after 10 years of "we'll be on Mars in 2 years"?