Post #1391115

2026-02-10 10:31 UTC

@chainq do you program for a job? I've been wondering about a serious career change which adds a layer of worry on top. I know that A.I isn't going to stop senior software dev work (which was never 100% about programming) but this idea of craft, care and thought does seem to be going away. I don't know if it's better or worse that it's my job as oppose to hobby. Perhaps it will just become a hobby? Either way, you are not the first person I've heard who has voiced these concerns

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@oni@chaos.social 2026-02-10 10:41

@chainq I suppose change is inevitable and sometimes good. This change feels bad. Seems like software engineering and programming was mostly a mess, then A.I. threw petrol on that fire. I do wonder about our Artist and Writer friends who've already been facing this A.I. change for a while now.

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@chainq@mastodon.social 2026-02-10 12:03

@oni Yeah, I'm a software engineer by trade. And I could deal with all this shitshow at work, because well, money talks. But this was part of my hobby, part of the "craft" I care about, that is now going away. And the number of people who I thought were like-minded also reduced significantly. Of course I can still do whatever I want at home, and tinker with software. But if you're making tools even as a hobby, you want those tools to be used by someone.

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