Ask HN: Other Tech Elders.. How do you deal with the AI world?
I've been around for ages - whether it's p2p, hardware, protocols, saas things, security, oss, whatever.... AI makes me hate tech. I've said it. For the last three years I've helped multiple orgs either as a full timer or a consultant, some are in the Valley, some are local.. But it's all the same.
Orgs seem to want people to churn massive amounts of AI infused code. Pull requests are both not valued, and frankly ignored. My own code is reviewed by AI elsewhere, rarely by people. Reviews from people are at best surface level - and honestly, I've done some really, really hard things the last month or so. I genuinely feel that I haven't learned anything other then how to be upset, for about a year. The last straw was a PR I read today.. someone, with the help of Claude spat out 3457 lines of bash to create a tool... a tool that is `w` (yes, from procps, type it in your shell). I... just can't do this anymore. But, I still need the money - I'm frugal, but I'm not wealthy and cannot retire..
I find myself unable to work out. I now overeat. I come home watch TV for hours, and do nothing, something that in my life I have never done. The (awesome) vacation I took last week was at best a pause, not a recharger as it turned out.
So fellow HNers.. is this something you see? Is there anything I can do? Is this present our future? I'm at my wits end.