Post #3830223

2026-07-08 04:30 UTC

Software developer w/ 25+ years of experience here. My condolences, this sounds like a shitty situation. But it’s definitely not the first time I’ve heard a story like this. To be perfectly honest, my professional opinion is that if we can’t, as an industry, get away from the “all AI all the time” mode of operation you describe here, we are completely fucked. I’m looking to retire early anyway, so I will likely get out soon. But I feel awful for young engineers who don’t have that luxury, and who will be expected to maintain AI-written spaghetti code without having the years of experience writing and understanding complex code using their own brains.

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@Witchfire@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 04:51

I was in industry for 10+ years until I got laid off. I’m looking to start a circus now. The job market is all slop and I want none of it.

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@lobut@lemmy.ca 2026-07-08 05:15

I’m 40 something and I didn’t make FAANG level money. I still need to work for at least a little while but I am still planning to retire early as well. I definitely feel for the next generation as well. Every new job I usually did my best to train the juniors and try to put them on a good career path. It seems like it was already difficult with the thirty million line problem and just how much sits in between the code can be a lot. Now add in AI and it’s just a mess :/

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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-07-08 06:37

its going to be a law of diminishing returns if they hold on to more senior devs in the industry and wont hire any juniours down the line, creating a artificial shortage.

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