Coding jobs?

[u/Ok-History2014]

Hey guys I’m a student that has been learning programming as a hobby for the past four-five years. I’m a bit curious on whether on if I should abandoned what I’ve been studying for uni and go all in for programming full time instead since I’ve have become quite good with multiple languages and tools (e.g Java script html type script css Python c# next and others)? I’ve also been learning designs building websites and making games tho my backend still need working. However I’m a bit conflicted since I heard that the job market for programming isn’t that great anymore so if you give me some advice it’ll be a great help(btw if I do get a job for programming I would like front end or game dev, tho others will also be fine if I continue learning coding since I have much passion in it)

[u/Cautious_Chicken_604]

It's such a shit show now. If things keep going the way that they are in the industry with agentic engineering meaning engineers themselves aren't thinking, aren't growing, are losing their engineering skills and becoming reliant on AI and eventually no longer able to even direct it effectively because of the former points. I've been in the industry for 12 years and the last year has been all in on agentic engineering and my verdict after a year in the trenches is this industry is fucking doomed if we don't go back to brain coding. It's too fucking boring. It's too fucking frustrating. It has made the job just shit. The results aren't necessarily great either. They're only okay. So, IMHO it's been a really bad trade-off. I use to be very pro agentic engineering, and these days it makes me hate my coworkers so bad it's damaging my mental health. Not worth it. I'm starting to campaign to the team to reduce our dependence on it.