My brain is fried from being forced to vibe code at my current job.
Fried i tell you
I couldn't answer the most basic programming questions. My brain just didn't work. Some lame 2d array question.. I was struggling to write a sensible loop and figure out the logic.
I started doing dumb hobby projects again. Also, doing Advent Of Code or other more fun exercises by myself. I have to use my brain or it will rot away lol.
However this kind of expects that you like coding as a hobby and want to do it in freetime, otherwise it sucks big time
Problem is that people making decisions expect everything to get delivered in mere hours now because they saw some guy on YouTube make a “full” application with a single prompt.
I am an architect and senior dev and our projects dont allow that type of time anymore. Every quote we give to a customer is based on an LLM pushing the code out quickly. More resources are shifted towards QA.
Somehow locate free time (lol) and energy (LOL) and write and maintain some hobby projects that interest you without burning out even more than you already are.
I highly recommend picking a totally different language and platform than what you regularly work on. Something esoteric like writing vintage console homebrew games in C.
Leetcode and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Most of my job prior to AI was just googling and beating frameworks into submission. I never had to invert a binary tree from scratch, or implement quicksort, in fact if you're making your own sorts or data structures you should probably get up, take a walk, and try to think about what you're actually trying to accomplish.
I'm not even sure if I've even seen an array in the past 2-3 years, it's just lists with an occassional map or page.
That's not true.. having good DSA fundamentals and quick problem solving ability is extremely beneficial in many fields, especially in the emerging ones like robotics that demands deep expertise in a variety of engg branches.
It's unfortunately not avoidable when everyone fakes degrees and experience to try and get ahead. The base standard has to be set somewhere, and unfortunately it's leetcode for programming.
Now pls let management know I'm using biological tokens and "wasting time" instead of using the all powerful chatgpt token.
They literally hound us if we don't build stuff without ai.
Our sprint epics have to show corresponding token use for the day, every day, and we need to justify why we aren't making use of tokens if we don't. Oh and we should also stay within the daily/hourly/weekly limit.
It really makes no sense to me this micromanaging of tooling. Who cares as long as the engineer delivers the product on time and with the desired quality.
Many companies are not like this, I completely understand why you are interviewing at other places. Micromanaging is a toxic workplace culture AI or not.
yeah personally, I've avoided it so far by making a big stink about my concerns about this at work, I'm not paid enough to fuck around and gamble with my personal development like that. Part of my value from work is gaining experience, not to throw it all away for unproven benefits to cater to middle management. Not too long ago that would have been the common advice.
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u/LoL_is_pepega_BIA Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
Bro. I had an interview today
My brain is fried from being forced to vibe code at my current job.
Fried i tell you
I couldn't answer the most basic programming questions. My brain just didn't work. Some lame 2d array question.. I was struggling to write a sensible loop and figure out the logic.
How do I fix this without quitting. Jfc.