I went from education (community college CS) back to industry because teaching in the early bits of the LLM age was soul-crushingly depressing and stressful. I doubt things have gotten better since then. :-/
I'm trying to figure that out myself. I'm oscillating between being convinced that I can't see myself doing anything else, and that I can't stay. I dropped out of college to do software dev, so I really feel like I screwed myself.
Even as a developer who's independent for now, I'm still affected by this. I don't like seeing my friends suffer. And seeing folks who've demonstrated no prior interest in, say, classic Mac OS suddenly churning out slop is just depressing.
As a counterpoint to all the AGENTS.md files I see nowadays, and also as a symbolic act of defiance, I added a HUMANS.md to my main code repo.
Writing as a self-expression
Sometimes helps address depression
Putting into words my sadness
Counterbalances the madness
Rhyming verses, cadence bardic
Free of curses, yet cathartic.
I can't promise "That'll show 'em!" —
Still, I hope you like my poem. :-)
datarama | 2 hours ago
being a software developer is getting more and more depressing for every day that goes by.
unwind | an hour ago
Yeah. And not being a software developer just seems not even existing at all
? Like what, go to grad school for math? Yikes. Anyone wanna spot me 150k for law school?
When the productivity multiplier arrives and instead gets used as a workforce divisor, it’s hard to not feel completely zero-valued in this world
darth-cheney | an hour ago
I'm considering becoming a teacher.
datarama | an hour ago
I went from education (community college CS) back to industry because teaching in the early bits of the LLM age was soul-crushingly depressing and stressful. I doubt things have gotten better since then. :-/
HugoDaniel | 50 minutes ago
depending on the field (more or less hands-on) it may or may not help to have a prepared response to "chatgpt is a much better teacher than you".
datarama | an hour ago
Math is probably not where I'd go - they're coming for that as well.
the future seems to be whatever manual work we can find where physical robots are still too expensive or clumsy.
chai | 34 minutes ago
I'm trying to figure that out myself. I'm oscillating between being convinced that I can't see myself doing anything else, and that I can't stay. I dropped out of college to do software dev, so I really feel like I screwed myself.
jjuran | an hour ago
Even as a developer who's independent for now, I'm still affected by this. I don't like seeing my friends suffer. And seeing folks who've demonstrated no prior interest in, say, classic Mac OS suddenly churning out slop is just depressing.
As a counterpoint to all the AGENTS.md files I see nowadays, and also as a symbolic act of defiance, I added a HUMANS.md to my main code repo.
Writing as a self-expression
Sometimes helps address depression
Putting into words my sadness
Counterbalances the madness
Rhyming verses, cadence bardic
Free of curses, yet cathartic.
I can't promise "That'll show 'em!" —
Still, I hope you like my poem. :-)