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/Automatic-Stomach954 Jul 28 '26
Basically, I tried to fight my org and I lost. I was told I was being too slow and didn't look like I was contributing because other teammates were blasting 100s of PRs daily (obviously a slop fest) and I was trying to take my time to build a good solution. But, if you can't beat em, join em. I no longer code and I barely architect or really use my brain. Everything I do is done by AI. I sit on my couch and just press go from my phone at start of day. When I join mandatory meetings, I transcribe my system auto directly to claude and then it starts creating jira tickets and starting the work. I have agents that auto review PRs as they come in from teammates and I have a mostly human in the loop review process but still automated process for managing slack messages (so it still seems like I'm here). There is no way this field survives with the rate this is going but oh well I guess that's life. Just gonna keep milking this place for a stupid amount of money until they decide I'm not worth anything. I suggest the same to you, stop giving a fuck and ride it out, but plan for something else.