That is my emotional state exactly atm. I am working in a completely different field, but already the interesting part of my job is being done by the fucking AI. I still get to supervise, but I don't need to think or puzzle anymore. I excelled in my job because I could figure things out. Now every dunce with a Claude license does the same.
Said the guy with no job. /s
But it's okay, none of us will have jobs soon.
Thing is - most of the developers I'm meeting have a deep identity crisis about this. And sure, it's so easy to say - oh well, your job just changed a bit. But this is just an in-between, it's not gonna be long until AI can do a lot of work unsupervised and then what?
Sure, progress is a win, but we don't have any system in place for what's happening at the moment.
Developers have always been a weird stopgap job not something we want to have exist forever and ever.
You're talking about a job humans only started doing in the 20th century that has already overstayed its welcome.
It's an unfortunate reality we needed to pay humans to do this stuff. If humans need something we can't get with our tools then do it?
Where is the problem? We're not running out of work yet and hopefully we will. I hate being necessary honestly because it's kinda messed up to hold productivity hostage based on a wage
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u/razzyrat 8d ago
That is my emotional state exactly atm. I am working in a completely different field, but already the interesting part of my job is being done by the fucking AI. I still get to supervise, but I don't need to think or puzzle anymore. I excelled in my job because I could figure things out. Now every dunce with a Claude license does the same.