AI is the worst thing that ever happened to software engineering. I'm actually reviewing my options for getting out of it.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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I'm hoping to exit the industry (eg., retire) as soon as is practical. It's just not fun any more and this was the shit-icing on the cake for me.
Now, LLMs being used to check for vulnerabilities... that I'm not really against, machine-learning is good at pattern recognition and it seems to be legitimately useful at that from what I've heard.
But as 'intelligence' or a trustworthy search mechanism for retrieving and re-synthesizing (note I did not use the words 'authoring' or 'creating') anything more than simple standalone functions? Nope, nope nope. Too many hallucinations and I didn't fall in love with programming and computer science only to end up being a reverse centaur, slaving away at prompts to actively steer a stochastic slot-machine into writing the proper code for a task.
I envy those that can retire soon. I'm halfway through my career, not enough money to retire yet.
I still need 3-4 years probably, minimum :(. I feel really badly for younger people having to deal with this shit. I'm also in a sub-field which doesn't seem yet to have been hit so hard with all this BS. Sooo glad I didn't become a JS/web developer, it sounds like vibe-coding and swarms of agents have taken over.
I’m 50 and in the process of retiring. It’s such a fitting exit. I’ll ride the slop wagon into the sunset.
I retired at 55 and I highly recommend it. Actually I’m not sure that I’m retired or just quit working. I worked for myself and decided I didn’t want to deal with people anymore so I’ve just stayed home for the last 11 years. Ether way it’s been great!
That seems similar to my path. Covid put me on the remote worker world, so we packed up and hit the road. Moved to a remote small town near vast nature. Bought a nice house on the river.
I’m also self employed and doing normal near retirement things. Currently on a 3-6 month contract for an ex employer in the financial space doing AI security stuff.
Then I’ll take the winter off and snowboard every day.
In this day and age, you can’t take that as anything but a win! Best of luck to your disembarking from the reality’s of life!
"stochastic slot machine" What a great description. I have to remember that one. :)
I think it's one of the worst things that happened to humanity.
Even if you somehow want to convince yourself that the social and technological damage it causes are not so bad, the environmental impact is just the last nail on the coffin of humanity.
We'll all die for shitty chatbots.
We'll all die for ~~shitty chatbots.~~ shareholder profits
Ftfy...
Actually, both are valid
Try to resist a little bit more. The second AI winter is months away from now.
oh yea, not only that , conventions centers are mostly peddling AI TECH startups right now to stave off the bubble burst. i wonder how many tech employees going to these know AI is total BS, or to make thier bosses happy under the threat of getting a future layoff.
Same here. I'm looking at all my other hobbies and trying to see which one would be the best... Unfortunately I doubt I could get anywhere near the same salary unless I find a way to start my own successful business out of one of them. That sounds just as stressful though lol
I was trying to think of the same thing and came up blank.
(I'm a spoiled man in my 50s with an office)
No it doesn't!
Lalalalalalalaaaaa can't hear you!
I can finally fire everybody who ever said no to me!
I was basically told the other day, that if I (as a Network Engineer) don't start using LLMs more regularly, that the vibe coders on my team will replace me with agents.
Let that sink in.
Imagine, an agent, configuring a BGP session, and validating it. MPLS. DWDM.
Yep. Me too. I'm fucking terrified.
Time to update the price list if AI touched it?
Ohh, I would be glad. We would finally see how fragile the internet really is and hopefully it will spawn a better internet
The bubble can't pop soon enough and it's gonna drag the entire US economy under with it
Don’t worry the Chinese economy has been groomed to take over. They already make all of our shit anyway, And we’ve trained all their scientist and engineers and our western education so they have all the knowledge that we have already.
groomed? jesus christ. lemmy.world is such a cesspool of ignorant racists/fascists.
We’ve been warned about Skynet for decades. But in reality, it won’t be this organized, intelligent threat and will instead be this discordant shitstorm that eats all our resources and creates instability everywhere and goads everyone into a false (dependent) sense of security so that there’s no chance of properly rebuilding after our infrastructure fails
skynet achieved self-awareness, and AI. LLM arnt even close. let alone these ceos want Cylons too.
Dddddddddddddd...