No your anger is entirely justified. Just misplaced.

Your directing anger towards an inanimate thing. Ai doesn’t care nor is it harming anything you listed.

Human shit stains using ai as a blunt instrument is harming everything you listed.

Being upset at AI is like being upset at guns for massshootings.

Put a gun in the ground and guess what it’s going to do. Fuck all, it’s going to sit there cause it’s a piece of shit metal that can’t do shit.

Direct your anger to the actual sub human shit stains ruining everything for the rest of us. It gives you an actual outlet, an actual real and tangible thing that you can rationalize.

You can DO something about people misusing a tool. You can’t do shit about the tool.

Pandoras box can never be closed. We call all work together to prevent assholes from using what came out of it from making our lives worse tho.

I feel the same… 6 years spent on 2 degrees to get into game development, and as soon as I graduate from the last one, the aftermath of COVID and then AI burn the industry and cause it to be nearly impossible to get into for the average junior and layoffs are increasing each year… Then people say we gotta just “deal with it and stop complaining” 🙄

I’m tired of it all

i feel this so much :<

honestly i might even be fine with it, build my own ai-free bubble, and just keep doing the things i like the manual way, if my job which i am required to work to survive and which i previously enjoyed hadn’t turned to shit because of ai and is threatened to stop existing entirely threatening my lifelyhood

Oof again super grateful I chose healthcare. They’re still trying to shove ai in but at least for now they know Claude can’t wrangle a wildly verbally aggressive schizophrenic who’s also had a stroke and is perpetually covered in piss out of the dayroom and into the shower for the fifth time today.

Nah, you’re valid for this. Anger has purpose. You could resign yourself to the sad life of AI dominance, or you can get mad and set fire to a data center.

AI is a new excuse to not hire junior developers. The financial crisis was another excuse. The dot com bubble was another excuse. Junior developers are needed, but hiring authorities hate to employ them.

i wholeheartedly agree with ya on this. my passion keeps getting messed with.

The job is going to keep existing, but companies really don’t want to hire people right now, specially at entry level

I usually only see this obsession with… u know… peeps within the bubble.

but yea I get that its kinda a coping mechanism. it hit em similarly, maybe not as strongly and things do suck big time rn. Anyway I looked at wonderful paintings in a museum today. awesome stuff, really expressive and just - strong.

There is so much to hate about AI, but programming has not been about typing out code letter by letter for a long time, probably before you and I even started doing it. IDEs have had autocompletion and “generating” whole classes / methods / whatever structure for a couple of years now (although deterministically). Low code / no code has been growing in popularity before LLMs. Generative AI is out of pandoras box, there is no way it will vanish out of software development one day. But we’re also not yet at a point where any sales asshole is able or even willing to create effective and resilient systems as we have seen a couple of times in the recent past. Maybe we will never get there.

Concepts and architecture matter more than code, they always have. Focus on the bigger picture and learn to use LLMs as a tool, in ways and situations / workflows where it unarguably works (even if you doubt it), but refuse to become a meat proxy that became unable to answer a slack message without AI. Tech is not the problem, it’s a handful of people ruining it for everyone while getting stupid crazy rich by fucking up our planet and the people living on it. Don’t let it take away your passion for computers, or else they have won.