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Ask HN: AI has changed my job for the worse

17•yodsanklai•10h ago
In the span of a few months, my job has completely changed. Most of the code in my team is now written by agents. And most of the focus of my team is to integrate agents in our products.

I'm not interested in the products we're supposed to build, and I don't like the way we're building them. Code quality has suddenly became irrelevant, and you have to keep up with everybody who ship twice as much code as before.

At the same time, there's more pressure on SWEs to deliver as layoffs are looming. I think leadership really believes they'll be able to save a lot by ultimately getting rid of all of us.

I'm not sure what to do at that stage but I'm pretty miserable. It's crazy that this occurred so fast.

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sexyman48•10h ago
You put a manual bookkeeper out of a job. What comes around goes around?
y0eswddl•9h ago
How. How is a software engineer building saas applications in 2025 replacing a manual bookkeeper?
journal•7h ago
manual bookkeeper? a quickbooks user? or pen and paper? either way, it's not like any of you are manually entering debits and credits regularly into a journal like they have done forever before computers, databases, and software. we're not losing jobs because of ai but because we're in the middle of switching gas tanks. just a low energy production is causing everyone to panic and blame it on ai. i have so much work i wish i had the money to hire people. they're all just waiting for things to get cheaper. it's not like they don't have enough money to survive indefinitely, if they can make 90mil in two years vs 10mil now, the math is simple, just wait.
add-sub-mul-div•4h ago
It's just the typical midwit argument that one kind of automation is the same as any other. Best to ignore it.
JustExAWS•7h ago
Manual bookkeepers were put out of a job in the 1980s with VisiCalc
lschueller•9h ago
I feel your worries, but sooner or later sde roles will adjust to the new requirements and tools. If a companies business model is at risk by an evolving technology or innovation, it wasn't very good after all. Nonetheless, the skills are still essential to good products imho
y0eswddl•9h ago
This seems to be par for the field rn. I would say learn the tools for now, do your best to ship code you like, release as many f*cks as you can about what you're building - especially if the product and majority of products belong to someone else, and start putting feelers out for something better to hopefully come along.

It sucks SO much rn, but it seems the majority option is to grin and bear it for the time being and pray to whatever gods you believe in that we get back to something sane sooner than later

paulcole•7h ago
There’s tons of jobs in the world. Go get a different one if you’re that miserable?

You’ll probably find something to hate about that new job, too.

dudewhocodes•7h ago
Everyone in the field seems to be in deep FOMO driven by the other guys also being in a state of FOMO. This creates chaos, delusion and a stressful environment where things are irrational.

I understand your thoughts, we have to keep pushing through this and saner heads will prevail.

journal•6h ago
be the best at using llm and do talks how to use them get noticed and stay hired.
MonaroVXR•5h ago
This is only if people believe you
dannicou•5h ago
It’s understandable to feel this way — the shift happened incredibly fast, and a lot of teams weren’t given time to adapt. Maybe the real challenge is figuring out how to redefine what meaningful work looks like in this new environment.
bitbasher•4h ago
This too shall pass.
sharts•3h ago
Why aren’t we replacing the executives who make the poor business decisions which lead to layoffs with AI agents?
yincong0822•2h ago
find a project on github and contribute it!
keiferski•10m ago
Not to be flippant, but - be glad you’re not a writer, because you might not have a job at all.