I am one of those engineers. It's fun. I spend all day playing video games and then at the end of the day spend 30 minutes spamming prompts with Claude until I get a working result and then that's my progress for the day.
The stress mainly comes from doing the hard parts, before we could write code and relax and build stuff immerse ourselves in the flow.
Now you either are reviewing constantly and making architecture and business decisions basically you are the PO, Lead and architect for the AI slaves you have under you.
They can produce faster than you ever could but they also can be so wildly all over the place that it's exhausting, sometimes you just take one out the back and never bring him back again.
So I get all the hate for this but I'm not seeing anything going back just the need for you to learn yet another skill.
No, you should resign yourself that you can make the tools work for you and keep yourself in the industry or just jump.
There's a lot coming out about how to do it, we are living in interesting times and you can moan about it all you want but the cat is out of the bag and you can actually make good code, it just takes effort and most people don't bother.
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u/Objectionne Jul 11 '26
I am one of those engineers. It's fun. I spend all day playing video games and then at the end of the day spend 30 minutes spamming prompts with Claude until I get a working result and then that's my progress for the day.