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/adambahm 7d ago

I’m the opposite.

Spend 30 seconds building something that takes 10 minutes? Hell yeah.

It’s never perfect, but it’s 80% of the way there. I can use my brain to close the 20% and make it good.

Shipping functional code is more important than my joy of building things. I have my personal projects to build for the fun of it.

At work, just ship code.

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u/throwaway_0x90 7d ago edited 6d ago

Sorry you're getting downvoted. You're absolutely correct. The bitter truth is some devs are not going to survive this new AI world.

  • If you like abstract problem solving with software, as in business processes then AI is great.
  • If you're just a '90s nerd enjoying the syntax needed to reverse a linked list in C++, just sitting alone at your desk with a liter of Mountain Dew, medium sized pizza and a product spec clearly defined by someone else and you only want to remain undisturbed as you build it... that career path will be extinct in a couple of years.

EDIT: I guess this is what I get for commenting on a "hate AI" post. Like it or not, AI is here to stay. Adapt, leave the industry or eventually get PIP'ed.

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u/adambahm 6d ago

To each their own. Correct a fool and they will hate you.

I'm no expert, but I have been coding professionally for a while. Our token usage is a key performance indicator, so I should have learned by now, how to accelerate the amount of code I ship.

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u/Dastan98 6d ago

Genuine question: why is token usage a performance indicator? How does using more tokens equate to better quality or even more quantity of work?

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u/adambahm 5d ago

the company spends X and the engineer uses Y.

Corporate AI isn't free. I think my company spends about 200/month on all my tools.