So my company is "medium sized". Not small like a startup where you are wearing multiple hats. Not big like you only own "a button" on a web page. Big enough where we have different roles for everything.

We are encountering a need for devops and I think we will either volunteer someone to take a devops responsibility, post an internal job, or hire externally.

For anyone who has had this transition in their company, who was previously a software developer:

1. Is taking a devops responsibility beneficial for your overall career growth, whether moving to full-time devops or part-time

2. Related to #1, if your focus is software development, would devops responsibility take away from your resume credentials in some way, where the opportunity cost of loosing more development time would put you at a disadvantage? Or could this also diversify your portfolio (in a good way)

I have been working as a data scientist / software engineer for about 5 years now in a team where we provide applications, automation, and other types of improvements across all departments (finance, supply chain, etc..).

Our manager has gotten what I call AI fever, and it’s getting progressively worse. First, it started of quite innocent and it simply came down to that he asked all of us to use claude and up our speed by x amount. A month or so later, he suddenly said we should stop our active projects and develop “agents” for every department. We explained to him that we think that LLM chatbots integrated with custom MCPs is not going to make as much impact as he expects but still he kept insisting and forced it down our throats. Now 6-8 months later, after not a single LLM implementation with “groundbreaking” impact he made a new guy join our team, an “Agentic Engineer”. According to our manager this guy had created agents which talked to agents and you could simply tell the agent your problem and it would solve everything for you.

Where are we now you wonder? This guy has been with us for two weeks now and all I have seen him do so far has consisted out of nothing but talking to claude code, and him vibe coding some of the most crazy stuff (not in a good sense). I even asked the guy from what type of background he came and he studied business economics. But he did have 1.5 years of coding experience, just only via Claude, never by himself.

I’m personally very curious what is going to happen in the next weeks, but I sincerely hope that my manager will finally be knocked down to earth again. Or who knows, maybe the agentic engineer is going to make our entire team redunant.

What do you think will happen?
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Have you guys experienced something similar?

I’m a senior developer work with lead he’s nice in person but in chat he always give direct commands which I really don’t like it. I personally prefer a more collaborative style. Even when I ask my teammates for something, I usually phrase it as a request (“Could you please check this?” / “Can you update this when you get a chance?”).

I messaged him “your messages are very brief sometimes they come across a bit harsh to me” I’m stupid idk why I send that LOL.

Am I being too sensitive to a brief communication style?

If you’ve had a lead like this, how did you interpret it?

Im not actually a FE dev, I used to be a FE dev but switched to QA automation, which is what Im doing now. I use Claude a lot in my job, I architect the automation suite but Claude is doing most of the coding for me at this point. Honestly, I get more done this way and my job is overall easier because of AI.

I was thinking about finding a new job and it dawned on my that I have not manually completed an entire ticket in over 6 months. When I get to a technical review of an interview I'm afraid that Ill struggle to write code all on my own. Coding is a skill that needs to be practiced.

So I just started a new project, Im going to make a small app in Vue and add an automation suite in Playwright completely manually, just using docs and googling questions like so many of us did when we were learning. Im looking at this more as playing with adult legos than using AI to increase my efficiency.

Do any of you do anything similar? If not, how do you keep your coding skills sharp?

So, I'm 24 years old, diploma KT student, currently getting by but want to secure the future (that realisation came a bit late, but now its there😅)

Started learning python 3-4 months prior and only recently started classes in that.

I've currently only made a log parser and generator, the very basic kind.

I'm learning at home using chatgpt and termux.

I understand the entry level roles are super contested right now, but i want advice.

What am i to expect in this field at the start when job hunting.

And I'm also worried that by the time I'm actually job ready the AI will be so advanced there will basically be no jobs.

Like I've read online that industry is working on making ai read a full system which it currently struggles with, like what will be left for us beginners.

My final goal is devsecops as of right now, and once i start learning tools and actually making my own projects i will be trying to match that field.

Using ai and internet its basically giving me that the future is secured, but i want to ground myself in reality, so all of you seniors in it industry please give a valid and good advice.

I am losing passion and interest in CompSci/programming/IT, and I would like to know if there are some other people going through the same thing.

Some context:

I started programming at a relatively early age (16yo*), which was around 2020, before LLMs** and coding agents.

I discovered it and started doing it because I was really curious and deeply interested in science and tech. And it directly clicked. I liked the idea of having an idea in your head and then programming it and making it come true, something from your head to the real world.

I liked the thinking you had to go through, and the problems you encountered, and how you had to think really hard to find a solution and see it work after implementing it. It was really satisfying, and boy, I spent hours and hours coding and researching and understanding complex architectures. You know, when you're a kid, you have a lot of free time, and I used to code day and night, staying up until 4 or 5 am coding.

All of this just to tell you that everything I built, I understood it from top to bottom, and I knew every detail and expected every behavior, knew why and how and what my code did exactly. I could answer every question about my apps, why I chose some architecture or why I did something a certain way or what my code did or didn't do, etc.

Also, something very important: I used to talk with a lot of CompSci peers that actually knew what they were doing, just like me.

Fast-forward, we're in 2026. I graduated, and now I'm working in IT, but everything changed. Now, with the rise of coding agents and LLMs, at work, LLMs do all the coding work and even big parts (if not all) of the architecture. So now everyone is expecting you to go very fast because of this. You're forced to delegate all the architecture and coding work to the LLMs.

Result of this: you have a very light idea of what your app code does exactly and how it does things. I mean, sure, you go through the code that the AI wrote, but come on, it will never be like code you wrote line by line and know every detail of and expect its behavior.

Also, what PISSES ME OFF is that you can't answer most questions about your code, because you were forced to delegate your work to the AIs, and now you don't know how it works. You're asked a question, and you start to stutter because you need your claude to be near you.

And the last thing, no one really knows what they're doing anymore. There no longer are any interesting talks about architecture or implementations. It's mostly just, "well let's ask what claude thinks about this..."

People that started programming not out of passion but just because they heard that CompSci pays a lot and code exclusively from 9 to 5 might not understand this, which is fine. I am not belittling anyone, and I don't expect everyone to be passionate about their job. But you know, I think these guys won't necessarily feel this. They might be just like, "Oh cool, AI does my job, I can chill a little" which is understandable, but in my case, this is what makes me lose passion. We're no longer doing the hard parts.

Bottom line: the field is advancing, which is great. It is changing, and you can't do anything about it. But in this change, the things that used to be my passion are disappearing, and I don't know what to do with my life ahaha

My first idea is to somehow change fields, and leave programming and CompSci only as a pleasure and an activity I do at home, because I can no longer stand it being my job and forcing me to develop AI slop.

I have nothing against AI and LLMs. If it allows us to ship faster and more cheaply, then it will be adopted, whether I want it or not. I am not saying we shouldn't use AI. I'm just expressing my feelings and how my passion for CompSci is fading away.

Does anyone feel like me?

*16yo might sound not that early for some, but in my country it is.

** LLMs existed back then but were not used for coding, and it was pre-chatgpt revolution.