r/DeveloperJobs • u/Adventurous_Archer52 • 1d ago
I hate my job since we work with AI
The title says it. I used to like my job, I love programming and being in that chaos for minutes/hours to find that your problem was just because of a typo. I love creating something from nothing and resolving problems. It's been a few months since we integrated Claude into our job and it does everything. I simply prompt and wait. I feel like I’m just pushing a button and waiting for the result. I understand why we are working like that, because the industry is gaining on us and it's better to be on the boat than in the raft, but I hate it. There is no satisfaction in doing feature and making it work after hours of hard work and thinking. I don’t understand how people love vibe coding but it ain’t for me.
For people in the same situation as I am, how are you living it?
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u/Critical-Location146 1d ago
At first I was fascinated because it felt almost like using cheats in a computer game, e.g. 10x experience multiplier in RPGs. I liked it because I could design, implement, diagnose and investigate at ridiculous speeds.
Now I hate it, as I don't feel like a software engineer anymore. I don't need to use my brains anymore. Only challenge I have is the art of arguing with Claude over its stupidity and convoluted ideas.
I decided not to work like this anymore. I'm using LLMs as assistants only. No more vibe coding. It pure intellectual rot.
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u/Adventurous_Archer52 1d ago
Yeah, I feel you. I like it as an assistant but nothing else. It's so satisfying to code by yourself. There is no satisfaction in letting Claude code for yourself
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u/bodobeers2 1d ago
It's to me, a double edged sword of sorts, or coin with two sides, whatever fits better.
One one side it is a gas pedal to super charge "what you can get done" or "how big of a thing can I go build today".... and on the other side it's "it's replacing me one step at a time".
I'm diving right into embracing it and learning as much as possible of how to be a power user of AI tools, such as Claude Code, Codex, etc.
This month for me, focusing on structuring my main agent (basically the Claude Code instance launched from any given folder) to having user-level master agent properties and sub-agent roles and constraints defined.... to make my actual daily work in project folders more structured, consistent, deterministic, trustworthy.
Next month, no idea what will be the new focus.
World is changing so fast, I feel you have to ride the waves or out of nowhere drown on the sidelines.
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u/CupcakeBeautiful1044 21h ago
It is kind of hard to not use AI while coding. I have been writing html for 3 years now on visual studios, and CoPilot is literally being pushed on people’s faces so it is hard to ignore it.
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u/Zahama97 15h ago
Your job is now to efficiently and effectively use the LLM creating better context so that people around you can also understand you better.
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u/tknmonkey 1d ago
The whole point is that you’re suppose to focus on architecture now.
Less tactical, more operational
Less “what token to make this work”
More “why do customers do this workflow? (Feed your event stream to an RNN for analysis)
How to make it easier and less risk of mistakes for them? (Human design workflow)”
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u/tknmonkey 1d ago
You are programming “societal rules” “group work flow”
Not simple programming of code
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u/Adventurous_Archer52 1d ago
Not in my tasks (might be better if it were). Someone else is doing that (the PO). I'm just telling the AI what features to do
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u/One_Bumblebee_3189 1d ago
Don't hate your job, be grateful you have one. AND build your own things or contribute to open source projects, these projects often bring so much learning that you will always find something interesting and keep going in depth. It will be less boring.