Comment by tom_m

I think they are good productivity tools in that they essentially shorten the research loop. Imagine having Google and stack overflow right inside your IDE. On top of that, imagine scaffolding/generators for a lot more "boilerplate" code.

If you look at them through that lens then they are less exhausting in my opinion, but I hear ya.

I feel the burn out too. It's because of all the hype and people out there (most of whom have no programming experience at all mind you) believing these tools can do something they cannot. Then everyone seems to intent on doing better here that they start trying to run multiple agents, etc. Ultimately this results in less productivity.

I'm going to be honest. At work, I've seen the team begin to build custom internal apps and dashboards that literally do the same thing as Jira and observability tools that we already pay for. It just happens to...OMG...put the data that used to be on two different browser tabs onto the same one! Woah! Amazing! It only took two weeks to build too! Jira is so cooked! Except. It's not. Because this little reporting app doesn't do anything and it has bugs to maintain. Oh right and it didn't go through the regular SDLC or follow any code review process so it's a violation of SOC 2. But you know what? They get a pat on the back.

This industry is as the kids like to say - cooked.