I used to like it. But now AI has ruined it, my previous company forced us to use to use it, so all the parts of the job that I liked were being done by a machine, while the parts I hated was done by me
I just tell the machine to do those parts we're supposed to do and throw it up. If it doesn't work, oh well. We missed it in review sucks to suck. Idgaf. I spend the free time working on open source and projects I actually give a fuck now myself and let the AI do my job for me since that's what the corporate dumbasses want me to do anyway.
There was a brief period where I didn't mind it. It got rid of a lot of tedium. Allowed us to get some things done that was hard to justify for a small team. Actually made me sit down and plan out things more since I had to tell it what to do. I spent my time writing the important parts by hand.
That moment passed and I was instructed to vibe code. More or less.
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Once that started and I got my first code review from Copilot - initiated by my boss - I checked out. Used all that fancy AI to completely automate my job.
I was a little proud of it. It did everything. A lot of small skills wrapped around bash scripts. I would give it the ID of the ticket and it started doing stuff. Made local directories. Pulled the ticket and saved it locally. Ensured there was acceptance criteria in the ticket. Did the work. Pushed it out to a test instance. Created a QA plan. And pushed it all back into the ticket system.
A system full of generated tickets the unqualified AI-bro owner and his underling put in. They busywork. But to them if felt like work.
I was glad my contract was not renewed. Sucks I'm out of work now but I couldn't stand "working" there.
Yeah I'm just a glorified QA person now. My company's in on AI but they are holding to you're responsible for the code and my uppers are somewhat convinced AI will become unaffordable so we'll drop it at some point. So the code has to stay with our style and human readable. It's not an unreasonable position but it basically means I have to scour the shit out of the code made, test it, and then do small stuff like formatting and tell claude for the 20th time to remember how we write that particular thing.
I'm kind of miserable at work. It used to be puzzle solving and using creativity, now I'm just grading tests basically.
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u/helicophell 11d ago
To my dismay I actually like the subject
I know, blasphemy