I’m kind of sick of being a dev. I hate AI with a passion.
I hate the hallucinations, I hate slop, I hate megacrops, I hate the environmental impacts, I hate the massive costs. I could go on but you get the picture.
At work I often times have to review vibe code slop from people who clock in 9 to 5 and don’t give a fuck (I respect that, I just wish your fucking code wasn’t slop)
I’m sick of it, I’m sick of hearing about AI tooling or new models or bro agentic actions bro based on your documentation bro.
I want to switch careers, so which career is not ruined by AI?
I’m there too. But not because AI. I just reviewed a PR by a newb. Code was fine. I could reason about what they did. It worked correctly. Then I read the other devs comments and what they requested done and now code that worked correctly and was easy to reason about is buried in abstraction that isn’t really needed but it “makes the code much better”. No it doesn’t.
That’s what I’m sick of. If I’m reading code and the logic that actually does something is buried that irritates me.
Some abstraction is great. Otherwise we would program with physical switches. But abstraction just because you think it makes the code look better is shit.
I recently had to work without an IDE on some code made by a *thunder crack* Java Senior. There was 4 redirections in 3 different files for something that, hopefully, got inlined at compile time. I swear it gets worse with age.
I’m pretty sure “sick of Java abstractions” was one of the motivations behind Golang.