Comment by squidbeak
4 days ago
> Instead of working with humans, I increasingly work with a fleet of agents.
I do too, but it means I have more time in my life to spend with people.
4 days ago
> Instead of working with humans, I increasingly work with a fleet of agents.
I do too, but it means I have more time in my life to spend with people.
Seriously I don't get what everyone else is doing where they say things are getting worse somehow.
There's days I no longer need to sit at my computer: Claude Remote prompts my phone when it needs direction, the hardware stays busy and I can just go out with my family instead.
I am in the same boat as you, but like someone posted earlier in another thread, I concede that a large percentage of my value proposition has vanished in a year. What worries me is that I'm having fun at the bar but have no idea when closing time is. I suspect that same feeling is aching a lot of people. I for one have had multiple discussions with my wife the last 6 months about what we are going to do when I get laid off, especially because we built a life around the notion or remote work in a niche field which seems to be eroding away. Fortunately I've been wise with my finances, so I have options. But I too have considered starting over in another career. Sort of sucks, but I am coming to terms with it.
Beware of inflation, which may not be a constant.
> What worries me is that I'm having fun at the bar but have no idea when closing time is.
That articulates a feeling that I had but did not have the words for, thank you for your eloquence.
Modern day society has normalized being forced to sit in a cubicle or at your desk otherwise face the wrath of managers for not working, despite massive increases in technology that multiplied productivity.
I have no idea where people get this pipe dream that suddenly societal norms will change such that our employers will let us off the hook for most of the day. This should be obvious with the largely abandoned work-from-home allowances.
For me, I can't vibecode everything bc it won't make it past our QC, and the complexity of the work done means I have to babysit and often step in and either do it manually or correct bad assumptions/stuff that isn't sufficient for the task.
I don't know what kinds of work that isn't trivial CRUD work is or isn't so easily streamlined but I do know folks in more complex/more safety critical stuff, we're just having to fucking sit there and babysit. It's so isolating, and even though I spend more time Not Coding than before, team culture and really any feeling of having value, skill, or pride in my work is off the wayside because the retards in management think, since we can do some stuff more quickly now, our human brains will be fine with taking in easily 5x more context for significantly more complex work on shorter timelines.
And unfortunately that often also compounds with the current state of the world in general. It's another straw on the donkey.