AI didn't kill your joy. You just finally noticed it was gone.
A post went viral on a developer forum for career advice. It captured a feeling many had been unable to put into words: coding just wasn’t fun anymore. The poster had a convenient scapegoat: AI. And thousands of people nodded along.
But I think they're pointing the finger at the wrong thing.
The rot was already there
It's not a new phenomenon that developers have been experiencing burnout for so long. The pressure to ship faster, iterate quicker, and treat every sprint like a death march didn't start with ChatGPT.
