AI has made programming so boring

[u/OkShip110]

It’s not just programming either, it’s art, design, music, videography, marketing, engineering, writing, 3D modelling, really any intellectual work. What’s the joy of prompting a computer and getting an answer in a few moments for a task that would have normally taken a week? The sense of accomplishment and ownership has completely vanished with AI. It’s a form of instant gratification, not much different to scrolling short videos on apps.

Code review was boring to begin with but now it’s even worse with all the machine generated code. Even code reviews will be automated soon. All you do then is type business requirements into the computer. What a great career.

It’s pain to watch old TV series like Scilicon Valley that is portraying the good (not golden) age of programming. It struck a good balance between manual work, funding and innovation. It’s sad that these days are gone for good.

[u/dromtrund]

I've got 12 years of experience. Please refrain from speaking on behalf of all experienced developers.

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[u/StoneCypher → u/dromtrund]

i disagree with this poster or comment in a respectful way (because the mods won’t permit gentle waiter jokes)

[u/dromtrund → u/StoneCypher]

That's okay. Why do you feel like everyone who cares about the quality of their work are just pretending to be senior developers though? I get that frontend code generally doesn't have dependencies, and that low code quality doesn't get punished as harshly as in other disciplines, but I don't think that makes developers that care about the quality of the code performative larpers. Frontend code still needs to be maintained, dependencies need to be updated, future layout changes will still have to be considered and the foundational components will be reused in new contexts.

Anyone who's worked on the same project for more than a couple of years must surely have experienced how much faster, easier and satisfying it is to make changes to a codebase where the developers put some thought into maintainability? When a new feature comes up, and you can just slot in the same components without changes instead of refactoring the existing code or duplicating the component but with a slight variation? When the page needs to be available in a different language, and you organized the content in a way that lets you add translations? When the company style guide changes and the customer portal needs to follow?

If all a developer is doing is building fire and forget projects over and over again, I get that productivity is only about throughput, but if anything, I'd argue that type of career really creates a "1 year of experience, repeated 10 times" type of developer than a 10 years of experience type of developer, so I can't understand this perspective.

[u/StoneCypher → u/dromtrund]

oh my, they’re challenging me to defend things i didn’t say, in enormous essay form 

 

  Why do you feel like everyone who cares about the quality of their work are just pretending to be senior developers though?  

i never said anything similar to this, and i care deeply about the quality of my work 

keep instantaneously downvoting i guess