Posted by yodsanklai 10/28/2025
Ask HN: AI has changed my job for the worse
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.
If AI is going to replace a programmers role, it will 100% replace any LLM expert / LLM prompter role.
If today:
Come up with some requirements -> programmer -> app
Why would the future be:
Come up with some requirements -> LLM expert -> app
Instead of:
Come up with some requirements -> app
I understand your thoughts, we have to keep pushing through this and saner heads will prevail.
You’ll probably find something to hate about that new job, too.
the LLM will parse tweets and emails and whatever else and can write it in a perfect, localized vernacular for whichever demographic you want to sell to.
and it can do it in real-time, 24/7
at this point you're mostly a bot-herder or social-media-tool admin; the tools are doing the thinking.
the cursor-bots needed wranglin' after'n they got into the source code for node.js.
yep, the linter's on the fritz now, too. i think ol' Jedadiah musta convinced it to act like jar-jar binks. well that jokester just cost us one. too bad we' can't fire'em. he's the only one knows how to turn the servers on.
i'm gonna go sit on the porch and watch tiktoks for the rest of the night. you be a good boy and tell the OpenRoomba to do its chores.
Even if it did work that way, the best it gets you is the same outcome as everyone else following the same playbook. Which it not exactly a winning formula for a marketing strategy.
For writing as an expression of meaningful thinking, and more so, as a tool for arriving at coherent understanding and thinking (the one that’d eventually produce the writing)… not so much.
AI slop is slop.
vibe code is going to crash those apps and I want to be away from them when it happens.
your job security is probably at risk already, so sharpen up that resume killer -- the market is rough right now.