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Take a moment have a laugh (although this ain't no joke man)

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HTTP finally got a new method after 16 years because GET and POST wouldn't stop arguing

After 16 whole years, the IETF finally looked at our terrible API workarounds and said: "Fine, here."

Say hello to **QUERY** (RFC 10008).

It is literally the lovechild of **GET** and **POST**:

\- It has a request body like POST (so no more cramming 2,000 characters of search filters into a URL).

\- It is safe and idempotent like GET (so your CDN can actually cache it without throwing a fit).

We no longer have to live in sin by using POST for fetching data just because the search query is too big. Nature is healing.

It only took since 2010 to get a new verb. Now we just have to wait another 5 years for browsers and frameworks to actually support it.

To put that in perspective, the IETF spent 16 years debating a single word, while the AI industry spent the last 16 months pivoting from chatbots to agents, to superintelligence, and back to convincing everyone that a $400/month subscription is worth it...

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What’s your opinion?

I love coding. I love solving all these little puzzles and expressing the solutions through beautiful code. I wanted to earn a living writing code. AI has taken that away from me. I started coding when I was 12. Now I’m 21 and about to get my CS degree. But now where I’m just about to be able to turn my lifelong hobby into a career, writing code turned into mind-numbingly rubberstamping AI code, and even though I believe that this results in lower quality software, the majority of people don’t seem to care, because quality took a little hit, but quantity multiplied. Therefore, I must admit that writing code by hand is not economically viable anymore. If I don’t let AI write the code for me, no one will hire me, and if I try to make money selling my own software, some AI powered copycat will come along and reverse engineer my software I spend months building in one afternoon and 100 bucks worth of tokens. But if I start using AI, nothing really makes ME more economically valuable compared to the non-technical vibe coders. I might have more technical knowledge than the classic vibe-coders, but this gap keeps shrinking because of the progress AI makes. I feel like the value I can offer in software development is no longer enough to make a living. I spent 9 years of my life learning a skill that now got automated. Many people will now advise me to “stop writing code, start steering AI”, but “steering AI” is not an economically valuable enterprise either, because everyone can do it, so supply and demand works against me. The value of my craft came from the fact that it was a rare skill. Now everyone can do it. I don’t know what to do. Switching careers seems pointless, because whatever I try to learn, there are thousands of AI agents training exactly that at 1000x speed. I will most likely lose every race I participate in. Switching careers would also be extremely frustrating, because it would mean to bury a dream that I’ve not had since I was 12, but since I was 9. 12 years. It was a beautiful dream, and right now, I don’t want anything else, even though I believe that I cannot have it.
I keep going through the AI scenarios, and even in the most “optimistic” one where the AI bubble pops, AI won’t go away. Even if AI development completely stops, AI will get cheaper because chips keep getting better, replacing more and more developers. I feel like that career path is over for good.

Hello everyone,

I am new to this channel, so let me briefly introduced myself. I am a software developer with 20 years of commercial experience. Last 10 years I worked exclusively as remote contractor for US companies (I am based in Europe). During this time, I never needed to look for work, since one job would create two new contracts. Two years ago, while struggling with the client I worked for for about 4-5 years, an old client contacted me with an offer that was way better than the job I worked on. I took it immediately, and after a month notice, left the previous job.

But now that company got sold, I lost my position and it's been 6 months that I am not able to land any job or contract. I've had a few interviews and always failed due to some very stupid highly detailed questions... It made me wonder what is the point of the interviews, do I need to prepare myself as it was the exam? Working for so long, I never felt the need to know everything by heart, there is always Google, forums, AI, whatever issue I face, I usually get the answers I need within couple of minutes, but reasoning, experience and core knowledge stays.

I wonder if I am doing something wrong in my job search or this is just the conditions of the market, being oversaturates, with decreasing demand... Obviously I am taking time to work on my skills and learn new things, but that doesn't seem to help so far.

It's getting harder and harder to get a human response from services..

I am on my notice period for a company as it was just too stressful - I found another job thankfully.

Everything, from CEO downwards, is heavily AI coded. All the product stuff is slop, nothing was working, everything looks well formatted, bulleted and complete but there are subtle problems with all the AI generated specs.

I am a bit ashamed to admit I was overwhelmed with the flow of AI slop that the only option I felt I had was to use AI to try to process the volume of it which was beyond what I could process manually. The CEO is a micromanager and puts on unrealistic deadlines then keeps calling to check your progress.

So I ended up doing a load of agentic stuff and getting in over my head, producing working code but a lot of AI coded stuff that doesn't work too. It's really hard to understand what to do in an environment where everyone around you is delegating their thinking to AI.

Hey everyone, I need a reality check.

I work in a very small team at a company that serves thousands of users. Recently, my bosses discovered the "magic" of AI for app development. It started with a manager playing around with it for hobby projects (no big deal), but then my engineering lead jumped in.

In just one week, we used AI to migrate our entire frontend from Vue to React. We generated around 50,000 lines of code.

Since we already had the Vue base, the AI was basically translating the logic. It was fast—insanely fast. But as soon as I saw the mountain of new code, I got worried about how we’re going to maintain this "black box."

I suggested that we need to provide some context—either for us or for the AI to understand later—by:

• Implementing TypeScript to define our objects (instead of just leaving everything as any).

• Writing tests to make sure the AI actually translated the logic correctly.

• Creating at least some basic documentation.

My boss’s response (see the attached screenshot) was basically that we shouldn't "slow down" and that the speed of AI is more important than those "traditional" safeguards.

Is it just me? I feel like we’re building a massive skyscraper on a foundation of sand. Sure, the AI translated it, but without types or tests, how are we supposed to debug this when it inevitably breaks? It feels like we’re piling up technical debt at a record-breaking speed just because "the AI can do it."

Am I being too "old school" for wanting some type of safety net, or is the AI hype making people forget the basics of software engineering?

TL;DR: Boss used AI to port 40k lines from Vue to React in 7 days, but refuses to use TS, tests, or docs because it "slows us down."

I stopped laughing some months ago.

*Not my Twitter post*

Sorry, this will be a bit of a rant.

But I am just sooooo fucking tired of AI. I have been working as a dev for two decades, and this AI shit is exhausting. Every single job asks the devs to use and borderline abuse AI, expecting 5x productivity, moving fast, but leaves no room for error when a dev makes a mistake due to AI hallucinating. Literally speaking to Claude Opus it hallucinated an entire feature flag name, completely made up log entries (and then said "sorry for the overconfidence and having doubled down on the false log analysis"), and then management is asking how is it possible for these mistakes to happen, and if you try to blame it on the AI, they do not accept it saying that devs are 100% responsible for their AI usage.

So, they expect devs to move 5X faster, no real time to review the code that the AI is producing, punishing those who do not use AI (devs who don't have high token usage are getting fired), and then when the AI inevitably makes mistakes, the devs are still to blame.

I am so fucking exhausted.

EDIT: I quit! And I feel so happy. I'll go take a nap, update my LinkedIn, and keep going.

programming went from one of the most strict/structured fields to the wild west overnight with AI.

For decades there were strict guardrails of “correct” ways to write code like solid principles, design patterns, clean code, optimal space time complexity to the point that many places judged how good of a developer you were based on how deeply ingrained those principles were in the code you wrote. Yet with AI, overnight the same people pushing for that completely switched to just vibe code whatever works quickly.

I’ve seen a few companies recently where the developers didn’t even know the framework/technology they’re writing in, just shipping if it works it works code. As someone who is really fluent in that technology it pains me looking at that code. It’s just incredibly confusing how we got to this spot.

I am not sure if anybody can help right here.
But I really do not like whatever we call programming right now.
Not sure what is the best way to write code weather it is to fully vibe code or use AI as an assistant, I hate both. If anyone went though something like this and found some solution, I'd really appreciate if you share it with me. Otherwise, what other possible careers some can pursue that has same feeling as classic programming?

First of all, I have 9+ years of experience, working in web development mainly (Express, Go, Angular...ec) ; also did hobby mobile (Ionic, RN) and game projects (Unity, 2D).

I always had some pride in the things I did in the pre-AI era; but like many others now not feeling the case anymore.

There's some counterarguments thatI keep seeing over and over again in such doom topics; I am gonna address them all here; and why I am not convinced at all with each

- "Coding is dead, but System design and Architecture is more important than ever" -> "System design/ Architecture" was never a daily activity, it's something usually done before starting a new project and gets adjusted/scaled everytime there's a new major feature that requires implementing a new tech. ie. Introduicng Uber Eat to Uber. And I swear the last Architect I worked with did use Claude to figure out the system design and even generated docs all by using Claude, so even this part isn’t totally safe from being automated.

- "You can sitll code manually if you want" -> For hobbyist projects maybe, but in the corporate, even if they don't watch your token usage, they are setting very short deadlines now anyways; so it's impossible to finish things before such deadlines without using Claude/Codex.

- "Coding was never the hard part, if you were spending 90% of your time coding then you're a Code Monkey imaaoo bahahaa **fart sounds* " -> The dev communities are now filled with these people mocking at coding and calling it a monkey activity, like wtf...? Coding was the CORE *daily* activity of Software engineering ; as a I said before, not all programming-related activities have the daily frequency nature; Architecture happens once in a while, requipment collection happen frequently but not a daily work either (also depens in which stage the project is, building something new vs maintenance...etc); coding on the other hand was the daily thing we all did as programmers and for many of us, the most fun part.

- "You have to review the PRs by LLMs" -> No one can review a 10k+ lines PR; Copilot/CodeRabbit would be much faster.

What we senior devs are doing right now, is maxxing our sources of income by doing many projects in parrallel thanks to LLMs; employers still trust senior dev to babysit the LLMs rather than Juniors doing it; but the fact that there's no new blood coming into this industry (no one is hiring juniors anymore) only means that this industry is destined to be doomed. It doesn't matter if software quality degrades everywhere, companies just don't care.

But I predict the "income maxxing" by the senior devs is a temporary situation; soon the employers will realize they need less costly staff than senior devs to orchestrate the agents, that's why LLM companies are trying to automate all aspects of Software engineering: Coding, PR Reviewing, documentation, and yes even system design/architecture.