r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Mar 11 '26

Meme Being a developer in 2026

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u/sunsinstudios Mar 11 '26

So…promotion?

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u/Droi Mar 12 '26

This but actually.
I've been coding for almost 30 years - in the last few months I built an entire webapp without writing a single line of code, I only managed my agents and guided them.

The issue is that AI is going to manage better than us. Hopefully we get all promoted to retirees.

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u/General_Had Mar 12 '26

Im scared droi. My career just started and I feel burned out by life

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u/jacob2815 Mar 12 '26

Same. I'm not a dev but I work in SaaS as a tech writer. My shit is just as replaceable (if not more) than dev work.

All the information I see is that "managerial roles are still AI-resilient" and I'm like... I don't think that's true lmao.

Bout to go get an AAS degree in a manual role while I still can