People who quit tech jobs, what did you pursue/your job after?
Sorry if the question is stupid since malamang yung former programmers wala na dito.
The rise of AI coding is already here. Before sabi ko, no way AI can replace coding due to complexity and I WAS DEAD WRONG. Talo ako in every aspects.
Speed. Accuracy. Self-correcting. Error handling. Best practices. Always available. Hindi reklamador. Yung lamang ko nalang siguro is understanding business logic but even managers can do it.
The realization came when:
- A task that I estimated to be finished in 3 days, less than 30mins lang tinapos ng AI.
- Yung COO, manager ko, built an entire site without any knowledge of coding by himself and now has become our #1 product. It replaced yung previous #1 product namin built by 8 developers. That's a big slap for me since ako yung go-to programmer nya now I felt useless.
Since then, a year ago, the company I'm working with made a rule that we will no longer code and we will vibe-code onwards.
What we are really just doing right now is maintenance. The lack of meaningful tasks is demoralizing. Nawala na yung sense of accomplishment in solving/building complicated tasks.
Right now I'm only working 1~2hrs per day since ubos na yung tasks and I think termination is on the way. We terminated 5 developers 5 months ago and so d malabong mangyari din sakin.
So I wanna ask, what adventures/jobs in life are you on right now after leaving tech industry? No IT industry jobs please since ayaw ko na sa tech because of competition with AI.
Nakapagpundar naman ako ng rental properties at age 36 so I will survive even if losing a job but I don't want to live a meaningless life, i want to work at least 4hrs.
