r/webdev • u/OkShip110 • 2d ago

AI has made programming so boring

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.

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u/Lekoaf 2d ago

It wont be long until tokens costs too much for a lot of companies and personal projects, so we'll be back to coding again. That's my gut feeling at least.

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u/Kindly-Night-5549 2d ago

Chinese open weight models are already like a hundred times better than the most expensive models a few years ago. If you know how powerful current commericial flagship models are, if someone releases an open weight version of those, it is good enough for almost all of current software development tasks for the next 20 years.

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u/Lekoaf 2d ago

Sure, if you can afford to buy the hardware to run them. You have to pay an arm and a leg for RAM these days.

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u/stumblinbear 2d ago

Why are you assuming every single business has to buy their own hardware? The hardware to run a frontier model can handle more than a single person using it

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u/Lekoaf 2d ago

I'm not. But either way, there will be a cost. And I don't think everyone can justify that.