The AI Craze

Lately I've been feeling really shitty about being a developer.

I've always enjoyed tech and, once I got to university, I discovered how much joy programing gave (and, sometimes, a bit of hate).

You could take some problem, think about it and create something, through your code, to resolve it. And, once you're were done, you felt great.

Then, came "AI". Everybody started talking about. Every company started using it(and forcing us to use it as well). You open Twitter - yes, Twitter - and all you see is "how model XYZ is the new hotness". And, honestly? I'm kinda done.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not writing this to tell you guys to "stop using AI". I use it most days. I think is a great tool to help you think about problems, do some boring tasks, provide boilerplate, etc... But I'm sick and tired of hearing people say that it is some kind of silver bullet and that all developers are cooked.

You hear all these crazy stories about "how I used AI to vibe code my app and win 100k in a week", which, honestly, feels like bullshit, but, if it is such an amazing tool, why don't you hear stories about it crushing it at some legacy app?

I don't use a lot of my time to read about AI stories, but, to this day, I've never seen a single story about an AI doing a good job on a legacy app.

Also, every single day there is a story on Twitter about some vibe coded application that got its database exposed because some AI bro vibe coded the next greatest application.

And, for me, this isn't even the worst part. As I said, I loved to think about and solve problems with code. And now? Am I supposed to love telling my AI agent(s) to spill some slop?

I don't know, man... I've been feeling pretty shitty about my career as a dev lately. And, with each day, thinking if I should try to do something else... Not because "I'm cooked", but because I've lost the passion to do it. All thanks to AI.

And you? What are your thoughts about the AI craze? Are you feeling hyped? down? Nothing changed? I'm curious...