He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in a special way, in every detail, roof and wall, in the leaves of trees fluttering faintly before the rain. The world was opening itself, as if to allow, now that life was shortening, one long, passionate look, and all that had been withheld would finally be given.
Everything feels so slow, even on my frontier Macbook Pro. Websites keep randomly giving me bare 500s, 403s etc. When using apps on my iPhone (only a couple years old), the touch input randomly freezes sometimes and I have to reopen the app. When I was using Instagram in the browser, it took almost 15s for the GIF picker to load. I tried to open the Subscriptions pane on Youtube yesterday and my Firefox instance completely crashed.
I genuinely don't remember it being this bad even 10 years ago. But am I just having confirmation bias because I want to blame AI etc? I don't know. Anyone else see it?
using AI made me so miserable and bored at work
i have gone back to the manual way (using LLM for search only)
i feel great
i might get fired tho
Every single company meeting. Every post on this sub. Every video on Youtube. I used to rue the arguments in 2020 over what Javascript framework to use and now I miss them dearly.
I'm not an AI denier. It's here to stay and we are just prompters now. But god damn, I just want to never hear the word again.
I already miss it dearly. Saw a lot of people saying they love AI cause they don't have to type syntax anymore but I really struggle with the new workflow. Maybe it's cause I'm ADHD, but agentic coding just lets me wander off and get distracted from the actual problem. I used to be able to zone the fuck in when doing it manually and haven't been able to recreate that magic feeling. There was just something so satisfying (and yes, sometimes frustrating) about writing it out yourself, stepping throught the problem, debugging it. Writing code or even documentation used to feel like the nice downtime part of the job between the meetings and planning. Now it's just GO GO GO GO GO. More burnt out than ever.
I accept this is just how it will be now. Maybe this field just isn't for someone like me anymore. Wondering where to go next?
Almost every piece of software I use, from the operating system to even Reddit itself just seems to be getting worse and worse over the years. More bloated, slower, more random bugs (particularly visual ones I’ve noticed)… it isn’t just pointless features, it feels like the entire functionality of apps is often rotting.
Does anyone know what the cause of this is? With devs being pushed out in favour of AI, I was hoping that code quality would actually improve and thus software quality (even if we still get given useless features). But it just seems that the decline is actually accelerating??