LLMs are making software engineering jobs more isolated & tedious than ever
Before the big LLM boom it was so common to collaborate with peers out in the open. Whether through slack, teams, or zoom. People made time to chat through problems and rubber duck things.
Nowadays, slack is virtually radio silent as people channel all their questions through their favorite little sycophantic chatbot.
On top of that there’s a new buzzword shiny thing that everyone “has to learn” every day and none of it seems worthwhile. Why the hell should I learn how to “use agents”?? Who gives a fuck about MCPs versus Skills. We got along without ANY of these “tools” a couple years ago just fine.
On top of that no one is working any less. Everyone is pushing more code. All companies are hiring less and firing more. And no one collaborates. They just spend their time joining tutorial meetings about how to spend five hours automating a task that shouldn’t even exist or which could be solved by a more deterministic method than “using agents”.
Idk… I joined software for money yes but I also joined because I like problem solving and working through things. If I have to sit strapped to a chair and spend my time managing a non deterministic technology that’s actively making the world worse… what’s the fucking point…
God this shit SUCKS. Ai boosters are fucking morons who can’t see the forest for the trees…
Why are these ai loving dorks in tech celebrating their own deskilling while further enriching their billionaire bosses???? Don’t they realize that their bosses hate them as much as they hate those who don’t adopt ai??? They would love nothing more than to replace us all with indentured workers or machines that don’t demand fair pay..
Worst of all… on the rare occasions developers DO COLLABORATE out in the open they sometimes are just copy pasting responses from their chatbot … and like if they didn’t bother to write the response.. why should anyone bother to read it??