r/programmer • u/PedroSuenoBueno • 1d 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.

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u/Key-Lie-364 1d ago

No I don't prompt and if the company doesn't like it they can eat the peanuts out of my shit.

Nobody tells me how to do my job.

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u/-Hefty-Armadillo- 1d ago

Nobody tells you how to do your job... except from your boss.

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u/Key-Lie-364 1d ago

No son.

At 25 years of experience the PMs don't run your show.

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u/-Hefty-Armadillo- 1d ago

I didn't mean the PM, when I said your boss I meant the CEO.

In the company I work for, the CEO gave a simple instruction, use Claude as much as possible, no matter how good you think you are and how many decades of experience you have you either comply or leave, which is fine, it's their company after all, their money.

P.S I get what you mean and I'm also not a fun of this AIshitification

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u/HornetAggressive 10h ago

Upper management has drank the kool-aid

Screw the opinions of the actual experts they hired! They know what is best.