SWE work for me feels worse than ever but so far it’s still a decent deal overall. I could be making a lot less money to do more demanding work basically.
That being said I greatly miss collaboration with colleagues. We don’t talk shop like we used to and a lot of times when we do talk it involves someone pasting something into Claude.
I miss feeling accomplished by building things.
The pace of code change is both dizzying (generation) and slow (review). it seems like most are just rubber stamping PRs sometimes after ignoring them for days (because who wants to review 2000 lines of slop and ridiculous unit tests).
I don’t know where this ends.