[webappguy]

I personally can’t wait for programming to ‘die’. It has stolen a decade of my life minimum. Like veterinarians being trained to help pets ultimately finding out a huge portion of the job is killing them. I was not sufficiently informed that I’d spend a decade arguing languages, dealing with thousands of other developers with diverging opinions, legacy code, poorly if at all maintained libraries, tools, frameworks, etc if you have been in the game at least a decade please don’t @. Adios to programming as it was (happily welcoming a new DIFFERENT reality whatever that means). Nostalgia is for life, not staring at a screen 8hrs a day

[llbbdd]

You got some arguably rude replies to this but you're right. I've been doing this a long time and the stuff you listed is never the fun part despite some insistence on HN that it somehow is. I love programming as a platonic ideal but those moments are fleeting between the crap you described and I can't wait for it to go.

[vunderba]

> It has stolen a decade of my life minimum.

Feels like this is a byproduct of a poor work-life balance more than an intrinsic issue with programming itself. I also can't really relate since I've always enjoyed discussing challenging problems with colleagues.

I'm assuming by "die" you mean some future where autonomous agentic models handle all the work. In this world, where you can delete your entire programming staff and have a single PM who tells the models what features to implement next, where do you imagine you fit in?

I just hope for your sake that you have a fallback set of viable skills to survive in this theoretical future.

[lbrito]

Maybe it's just not for you.

I've been programming professionally since 2012 and still love it. To me the sweet spot must've been the early mid 2000s, with good enough search engines and ample documentation online.

[midasz]

Damn dude. I'm just having fun most of the time. The field is so insanely broad that if you've got an ounce of affinity there's a corner that would fit you snugly AND you'd make a decent living. Take a look around.

[bluefirebrand]

Feel free to change careers and get lost, no one is forcing you to be a programmer.

If you feel it is stealing your life, then please feel free to reclaim your life at any time.

Leave the programming to those of us who actually want to do it. We don't want you to be a part of it either

[oblio]

Don't be rude.

[hsuduebc2]

Did you expect computer programming not to involve this much time at a computer screen? Most modern jobs especially in tech do. If it’s no longer fulfilling, it might be worth exploring a different role or field instead of waiting for the entire profession to change.

I understand your frustration but the problem is mostly people. Not the particular skill itself.