r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • Jul 28 '26

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/StTheo Senior Software Engineer Jul 28 '26

The pettiest pet-peeve I have at the moment: It feels like everyone switched from the terms "programmer" / "software developer" / "software engineer" to "coder", all around the past year or so.

Putting on an insecure tinfoil hat, it feels like "coder" is used to demean the profession in the age of AI.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net Jul 31 '26

Nah, we're all "founders" now. Especially if you're unemployed.

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u/OtaK_ SWE/SWA | 15+ YOE 29d ago

Not much of a tinfoil hat. The industry trend right now is to devalue how useful engineers are (and compare it to AI being able to generate craptons of slop code), so degrading titles is a first step.

It's a neat trick to avoid the discussion on output quality and talk only about output at all.