There are 2 major types of devs in terms of their motivations:

1. People who were drawn to the profession due to passion of translating/architecting solutions to abstract issues (frequently with as much optimization & elegance as possible).
2. Business majors/hussle culture Bros that were drawn in by the profitability & relative esoteric supremacy.

The former are the people who report this feeling. The latter are the people perpetuating the grift & doing mental gymnastics to calm the cognitive dissonance that what they're churning out isn't ultimately slop.

For me it's the constant pressure to deliver more and with shorter deadlines while still being held accountable when things inevitably go wrong.

It removes any creativity I have in the process. Complex decision making is no longer mine, the only say I have is Accept or Reject (and Roll Again). It's soul crushing because entire process now has no soul.

And my coworkers who have bought in completely are now so lazy they don't even call in to meetings anymore, they don't answer questions, they let AI run the entire SDLC. When they get replaced by some MBA who knows how to hit the same buttons, they will be completely blindsided. And they will have nobody to blame but themselves.

They made us use ansible at work. Then they made us use an LLM .

One cancels out the other, IMHO. None of the things I wanted to do are represented here, forced to slop some yaml together instead of building and maintaining actual software. Ai use kills any recall, expertise, or enjoyment.

But here's the thing. I never want to think about how to affect a change via a bad listing grammar. I never want to recall the decisions I made while doing so. I never want to learn how to make better ansible. I never want to show my friends that code either.

I'm absolutely tickled to give it to the slop machine and let it accomplish the goals with very little investment from me. Fuck Ai, but also fuck ansible.