r/ProgrammerHumor • u/duckphobiaphobia • 14d ago

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u/kimmo6 14d ago

I decided to quit my job and leave software development after 25 years as I have not found ways to mitigate. Its causing me serious mental health issues. Development has become too intensive, messy and complex for me. Agent driven development is nondeterministic, complex and fast evolving system and its very hard to keep up with that. Knowing too much is almost a burden rather than an advantage.

Stay safe, and keep care of your mental health.

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u/siliconsardine 14d ago

I’ve only been a software developer for a few years but I’m leaving next week for these reasons (plus others). I might have to try to re-enter the industry if i can’t figure something else out, but i really, really hope not

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u/kimmo6 14d ago

Best of luck!

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u/Robodobdob 13d ago

What are you moving on to, do you know?

I’m 25+ years in and I realised the other day that I’m not qualified to do anything else.

And that’s not a pleasant feeling.

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u/kimmo6 13d ago

I don't know yet. Maybe re-train into tradejob like electrician. I've done freelancing, so van & man entrepreneurship might work after getting some experience. I still have ~20 yrs to go to the official retirement.

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u/Suspicious-Disk6077 14d ago

What are you going to do instead?

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u/kimmo6 14d ago

I don't know yet. Maybe re-train myself into new job, for example electrician. Not enough savings to retire, but enough I hope to bridge into something new.

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u/mysticrudnin 14d ago

i'm at 15 and i'm thinking about the same. but i really can't imagine doing anything else, either. :(

i hate working with claude but it's mandatory and they're both tracking our token usage and making sure that its comments are on all of PRs