programming

Same here. Almost 10 years exactly since starting as a full time "software engineer." I have had my own problems with the industry that have caused me to dislike the job or the problems being solved but at least there was some satisfaction to it, and like the OP there was something nice about working closely with colleagues, learning from and with them, and celebrating wins together.

Now we are expected to use AI as much as possible. I was told that a document from the CEO was required reading recently. It was very clearly AI generated and amusingly was about our strategy involving AI. No wonder theyre concerned someone else will eat our lunch, leadership can't even bother writing up a small strategy doc

I actually don't hate AI as much as a lot of other folks here. Its bad at quite a lot but it is nice to use for basic toil activities or getting a brief summary of running notes where inaccuracies are less expensive than time. It sucks so much when you are expected to use it for everything though. Today for instance ive been stuck trying to get claude to generate some corrections to a large PR it made - in hindsight I could have done it myself in an hour or 2 but instead I've spent like 8 or more trying to get it to implement code that matches the spec that is codified in a file :/ . when it works and can churn out something its great! That churn time can be spent looking at my org stuff, but when it sucks I'm just worried about my job lol.

Anyway, looking around for career change opportunities now so I can empathize with y'all.

Sorry dumping a wall of text at ya apparently work was worse today than I thought.