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happytoexplaintoday at 12:36 AM3 repliesview on HN

What AI has done to my job as a software developer is make my personal output higher while taking away almost every ounce of enjoyment, interest, and passion I had for the job. Overnight I went from loving my job to hating my job as much as everybody I know outside of tech hates their jobs.

I won't even get into what it has done to the already-awful experience of working with low-quality contractors.


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72deluxetoday at 8:28 AM

I found it meant I could produce loads and loads of code I can't mentally keep track of, and therefore have no hope of understanding without ........ a LLM.

Colossal brain rot for me.

pseudo0today at 12:56 AM

Effective organizations are busy replacing the low-quality contractors with AI. Seize the opportunity to demonstrate how you can get more done with a $1,000/month token budget than with $10,000/month in contractor salary.

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icedchaitoday at 1:52 AM

"You're absolutely right!"

Seriously, I couldn't have said it better myself.