My jobs made me hate programming long before LLMs. If anything I enjoy programming more now that I can tell the LLM to do the bullshit I don’t want to do, saving my energy for interesting problems…usually ones found outside of my 9-5.
Hyperbolic to be sure, but I think it’s fairly common for people to get into programming for fun as a teenager, turn that into a well-paid job, realize that programming jobs are often entirely different from programming as a hobby, then feel trapped because all the experience they have is in programming, and finding an alternative starts to look like competing with recent college grads for entry-level office jobs (ask a 22 year old how that’s looking these days), an expensive degree, or something menial for $15/hour or less.
First world problems, perhaps, but also a microcosm of our broader societal divergence, where a reasonably comfortable middle is increasingly being replaced by growing working and upper-income classes, with very different lifestyles.
Programming jobs differ wildly though. Working as a solutions architect is different from working at a startup, or a big corporate, or a company making video games, or a big tech company like google.
If you love programming but hate working at your current programming job, the problem might be the company.
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First world problems, perhaps, but also a microcosm of our broader societal divergence, where a reasonably comfortable middle is increasingly being replaced by growing working and upper-income classes, with very different lifestyles.
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If you love programming but hate working at your current programming job, the problem might be the company.