The Programmer Identity Crisis (via)

This really hit home for me. Lately I've been feeling very overwhelmed and bored at work, feeling like I'm just drowning in AI slop and cannot possibly keep up. AI-generated PRs are flying through our previously robust process, production problems are way up, most of what I read day to day is not AI-generated, and it's frankly exhausting.

It feels like something has shifted just in the last few months. I'm not sure if it actually has, or if my organization has just taken up AI to a new extent recently, but somehow the day to day enjoyment I used to get out of programming has mostly disappeared. I've been reflecting on why that is and what I might need to change going forward, but I'm not sure what that is yet. For now I enjoy lamenting the old way of doing things with other old fogeys around the internet.