AI could end my job — Just not the way I expected

This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Manuel Artero Anguita 🟨

This is a 101% personal and opinionated post.

After the initial months of AI craziness, I feel we've reached the plateau of "let's actually use these generators for your actual, paid job."

Remember the first wave? All those tweets from influencers:

• "🤯 It's so over 🤯"
• "🤯 It's soooo f**** over 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯"
• "NOW IT'S SO OVER GUYS 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯"

complete with fake-screaming-in-agony thumbnail.
The ones where they built Snake or a mobile game with just four hours of prompting? (Which, to be fair, is incredible.)

After that initial shock, it was time to introduce AI into my regular day-to-day work. And today, I stopped typing for a second and faced a hard truth:

The last 4 months of my job have been terrible.

Easily the most boring period of my entire career.

And I think it's because of g*enerative AI*.

I've been polishing AI-generated code, debugging AI-generated code, and reading logs from AI-generated executions about 90% of the time.

The precious part –where I would calmly write code— that’s gone.

It’s now maybe 1% of my daily work. I press TAB a couple of times per week. That’s it.

The rest of my week is crammed with:

• Reading more PRs than ever generated by the Copilot from my co-workers
• Polishing code. This was already the most tedious part of my job; it used to take up about 1/3 of my time. Now it’s at least 2/3s
• Reading bug reports.
• Reading execution logs.

I don’t write code anymore. The peace I used to find in that process is… gone.

That lost time is now filled with everything else. It’s like...

the joy of creation has been replaced by the monotony of maintenance.

For the last year, I’ve read again and again that programming was going to change. I just didn’t expect it would change for the worse.

Maybe it’s not about me getting fired? Maybe it’s about me walking in with a resignation letter. this isn't the job i used to love at all.

thanks for reading.

This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Manuel Artero Anguita 🟨

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