My jobs made me hate programming long before LLMs. If anything I enjoy programming more now that I can tell the LLM to do the bullshit I don’t want to do, saving my energy for interesting problems…usually ones found outside of my 9-5.
Hyperbolic to be sure, but I think it’s fairly common for people to get into programming for fun as a teenager, turn that into a well-paid job, realize that programming jobs are often entirely different from programming as a hobby, then feel trapped because all the experience they have is in programming, and finding an alternative starts to look like competing with recent college grads for entry-level office jobs (ask a 22 year old how that’s looking these days), an expensive degree, or something menial for $15/hour or less.
First world problems, perhaps, but also a microcosm of our broader societal divergence, where a reasonably comfortable middle is increasingly being replaced by growing working and upper-income classes, with very different lifestyles.
Programming jobs differ wildly though. Working as a solutions architect is different from working at a startup, or a big corporate, or a company making video games, or a big tech company like google.
If you love programming but hate working at your current programming job, the problem might be the company.
Given the fact the comment you replied to is flagged and dead? Apparently even mentioning that some ideas online may not have widespread support offline.
