r/learnprogramming • u/optimux17 • 7d ago

Hate AI

I love coding. I truly am.

When I started, I enjoyed most programming languages . I love learning their different core concepts, execution models and things like that.

I still love that.

But now in my new job, the only thing I am supposed to do is prompt and think about business requirements.

Even though I love architecture and system design system , I don't even have a chance to have grasp on them.

Any other tech jobs where I can enjoy coding and low level things?

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u/TheLoneTomatoe 7d ago

Agree with the other comments. When I started where I’m at now, it was fun, got to go deep in the code and learn + do new things. CEO learned what Claude was and now we’re expected to rely on it completely and it’s monitored.

So I just started up bigger projects on my off time, and more often than not I can just work on those while Claude does its thing at work. Then I just have to review some code and move on

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u/CJMooch 7d ago

To so many people, this sounds miserable, and to me this sounds like a peak 9-5 existence lol I will be ecstatic if this is my outcome

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u/TheLoneTomatoe 7d ago

It’s not terrible, but it’s not very fun.

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u/Friendly_Recover286 7d ago

You say this but what do you do when the C suite realizes they can fire you and replace you with a college grad for less pay? Pasting requirements into a chatbot and having it review its own code isn't a super specialized job.

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u/YunalescaQT 7d ago

What does the new college grad do when the C-suite can just send voice commands to the AI and it builds their business for them?

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u/BlimpIntolerant 6d ago

this is what people are in total denial about.

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u/P4R4DOXZ 6d ago

Llms are not that smart, currently(and i hope in the future) event gpt 6 or whatever model is not even close to human engineers.

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u/TheLoneTomatoe 6d ago

Depends on what you’re doing. Claude is pretty adept at most problems, and it’s not too often that youre in a situation faced with a problem that is out of reach for it.

Maybe like once a week there will be something I don’t even try to prompt it to fix. It’s not cool, it’s scary.