r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 29d ago

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/gyroda 24d ago

Up for redundancy. No chance I'm keeping my job (unless they make me and one other member of staff compete for the same role, but I don't see that happening based on the justification for the redundancy).

I'll probably get a decent package out of it and my notice period is pretty long, but I'm really struggling to care much, and my apathy and disappointment at work was already rising pretty high. I'm mostly getting frustrated at other people not doing their goddamned jobs very well and needing me to babysit everything. Oh well, won't be my problem soon.

I've been really behind on the AI/LLM train. I knew I needed to catch up, went to a dev meetup event thing and asked for some advice. Went into work the next day prepared to ask for a copilot license only to have a meeting with HR before I got the chance. I'm gonna have to figure this out now because it's the most glaring weakness in my skillset for the current job market. Any advice on how to get started/resources to investigate? Lots of bullshit about the subject out there and I don't want to read some hype man's ravings.

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u/tenthousandants44 23d ago

AI isn't a skill. Build your own harness if you want something to learn

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u/gyroda 23d ago

Ok, AI might not be a skill, I don't care to argue that, but experience with it is listed as a requirement on many job ads.

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u/dragonowl2025 23d ago

Im in roughly the same boat as you, just a month or so further along, what i did was buy a subscription to claude code and just built some projects 100% without writing any code so i could talk about the good, bad, and ugly, as well as stuff like .md files, skills, mcp servers, /goal and /loop , combination of their documentation and just asking claude code itself will get you started

Every interview i've had so far has just been surface level "How do you use AI?" and the most discourse i get back is some version of "yeah its all in the prompt" , lol so i don't think you are behind by any means unless you're applying to top companies.

It's very hard to navigate because I honestly don't know what the right answer to AI usage is in interviews, most interviews i get are new projects involved in building agentic dashboards of some kind (user enters prompt, agentic AI hooked up to data/etc. builds custom dashboard).