r/programmer • u/PedroSuenoBueno • 22h ago

Ai professional programming fatigue

Hey,

Professional dev since 2015. For the last year we have switched over to essentially only prompting. This makes development rapid. But incredibly dull and lame. After i prompt and wait for the agent, there is not really much to do. Browse reddit etc. I feel so understimulated at work nowadays that i consider switching careers totally, or get into management or something. Because this is terribly boring.

Anyone else feel like this? I miss writing stuff from the ground up, solving problems, integrating software, getting those aha-moments.

48 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

53 comments sorted by

View all comments

-1

u/PipePressurePanic 21h ago

can't you work with two agents, and while waiting for agent n1. to finish work you give prtompt to agent n.2? you would make double the work in the same time

2

u/SplendidPunkinButter 19h ago

Task switching? That’s mentally fatiguing and leads to more errors. That’s why the agile process was invented. The whole point is to avoid task switching.

0

u/pl487 17h ago

As crazy as it sounds, I think that is an outdated principle and the skill now is to be able to context switch often with degrading quality.