The most surreal thing about AI coding shit taking on is the revelation that so many people who do this thing that I love, seem to have no care for the craft at all. Even people who I would have pointed at, years ago, as those who clearly care. And I know it has always been Just A Job for many people, but holy shit, do you even care a little bit?
We humans are not merely bad at it, we have people who have been doing the work with no desire to be good at it in the first place.

@pikhq

that's the thing tho

coding was always "just a job" to me, it's part of why I burned out

I do enjoy some minor coding as a hobby when I'm free to make actually good software I guess

but the strictures of professional dev do not allow you to make good software

my skills deteriorated because the stuff I wanted to learn to do my job better felt futile, because it would never be adopted, and I'm frankly not doing Java/Spring dev unless I'm getting paid for it

but I'm still not gonna hand-in fucking copilot slop because I have to have SOME self-respect

@annarcana My plan was to let coding become just a job for me to avoid burn-out, so I'd stop caring/being less involved. This doesn't help? :(
unfortunately, the necessary dissociation required to make that work proved incompatible with the level of thought required to perform the task, but without it, it becomes too painfully clear how horrible the entire industry is