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"As a capitalist,I can confirm that market forces actually made me do it. I can't just take a job that earns less money than my current job"

I don't hate anybody for doing a job for the money, but also, like... do the job then??? honestly I still love programming despite it all so I just don't get it

I mean it's the only job left that makes a middle-class salary unless you can inherit your daddy's car dealership. What the hell else was I gonna do?

Me half the goddamn time.

The difference of quote between code i made for money and for love are there. “Yeah I could fix this properly but would require me hyper focusing for 3 days straight or do yet another bandaid fix that would be great for the deadline we have and im aware will only require testing in a few places”

I saw a post this morning saying they have a 1000 line prompt that then takes a few hours to generate all their code.... that sounds awful to work with oh and it generates 30,000 unit tests. As if anyone needs more than 8

The AI stuff set all that on steroids. But this trend has actually happened gradually, over about a decade from Clean Code (not defending Uncle Bob, he’s evil), which for all its flaws was focused on code quality, to Claude Code which is solely focused on code quantity.

This just makes me think of the IT team at work who were all big computer nerds who now don't really use their home PCs all that much.

But then you have to do work. I keep enjoying making games and studios keep paying me for it. 🤷‍♀️ I won't insist that this works for everyone, of course. But "don't turn a hobby into work," is far from general advice. If you can strike a balance, it's like you don't have to work at all.

I'll admit I'm partially one of those, at least in corporate. it's mostly that it is good money and I already had the degree and the job before I realized (or let myself admit) I didn't like it that much, so now that's where my career is. I still have too much pride to use AI, I'm dumb not a coward.

just another example of how genAI/LLMs seem mainly focused on taking all the fun/creative tasks away so we have more time to focus on doing tedious work nobody wants to do

Code review was more or less: did you suck up to the tech leader?

Ya I'm atm watching some at Microsoft, who are some of the highest rated developers with their intricate low-level knowledge valued by many essentially nannying a toddler on github. Please copilot listen to me please please do the thing please. Its so sad to watch. github.com/dotnet/runti...

yeah that sounds like my personal hell, actually

You can't assume an honest opinion on the topic either Devs know their company is buying their online data Nothing you do is private

The most optimistic believe they're not going to have to bother with the review part eventually and they'll be able to just trust that it's right without looking. The most gullible are doing this already.

Let's be honest, though, most of programming is pretty horrible

Back in school I was following an embedded systems track. During mentor time, someone asked our mentor whether you could get your diploma if you couldn't program. His answer boiled down to 'I did and here I am now'. To my complete bafflement.