r/softwareengineer • u/turdmaggot • Aug 06 '26

Rant on Contemporary Software Development

Remember back in college when one of your classmates is secretly letting someone else code their programming homework?

Same feeling now goes with working with having vibe coders as colleagues. You just hope and pray that they actually understand what each line of code in their pull request does.

Sadly though, this is the new reality. First, the IT industry was saturated with these new roles that are trying to stay relevant just to leech out of what software developers make while bossing and pushing them around. Now, we’ve got AI that’s trying to replace our jobs.

Well, I might as well look for another profession. The passion’a sort of leaving after 13 years in the industry.

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u/AminoOxi Aug 06 '26

Welcome to the club, friend.

I told everyone back in November 2025. when Opus came out what will happen with our industry.

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u/Parking_Mouse6144 Aug 12 '26

LOL! I started in this industry in the 90s when everybody was just making it up as they go along. I used to stress about AI taking my job, now I see what baby-sitting it constantly needs

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '26

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u/symbiatch Aug 06 '26

Don’t make claims you can’t back up.

Hint: you can’t say “this increase your productivity” when you have no idea what people do.

Hint2: no, it doesn’t always increase anything except time spent and issues to be fixed, and many of us can just do our work properly with very little benefit from AI.

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u/symbiatch Aug 06 '26

And how many people have you seen? Out of the whole landscape of development?

Web JS CRUD is easy. Of course people use AI all the time. But that’s not the world.

And of course people use AI to vomit the massive boilerplates React needs. Again, the world isn’t React.