Post #3535404

2026-06-24 18:10 UTC

Software engineer, here. Yep, the burnout is real. I consider myself fortunate, however; with the skyrocketing cost of AI, my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand lately to cut back on token usage. I think that’s pretty much where the entire industry will go soon.

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@uuj8za@piefed.social 2026-06-24 19:08

with the skyrocketing cost of AI, my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand lately Meanwhile, my company has forgotten how to write bash scripts… More and more things that could just be bash scripts are being added as stupid Claude.md scripts. Hahahaha. Let’s go! grabs popcorn

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@Xuntari@programming.dev 2026-06-25 12:33

I really hope you’re right. My company is still in the “use as much as possible” phase, and my manager is quoting Jensen about “you need to use half your salary on tokens!”. I’m looking for other work, but everyone is looking for vibe coders at the moment it seems… I’ve gone from really loving my job, to hate my life.

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@MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2026-06-24 22:48

Huh. Maybe I will have a shot at getting a job… Oh, wait, I have 35 years experience, am over 50 and have been unemployed for 16 months. Never mind. I gave up the humiliating shit show called a job search 3 months ago, and frankly my last job killed any interest in software development anyway. It’s all idiots telling professionals they’re wrong and incompetent while blaming them for the ongoing production failures we solved and explained every month for a year but still can’t get the code past review because “it does too much”. 30 fucking lines of code “does too much”. Pompous morons. We’re a threat of competence, and they’re excising us relentlessly. I will laugh bitterly as I watch the soon to be torrent of fiascos and lamentations these idiots spout while still finding a way to blame software engineers.

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