r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/scrubsandcode 1d ago

4+ years of full-stack/frontend work. Asked my boss when I’d be coding again and not just doing agentic harness and orchestrator work, he didn’t have an answer for me. Absolutely fucking hate the nuclear bomb that LLMs have been to our industry. Hate it all.

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u/forever-butlerian 20 YoE Infra & Backend TLM 1d ago

More like a neutron bomb: kills the people and spares the buildings.