AI is Hollowing Out Tech Jobs
AddressNew5619 · reddit · 2026-07-15
After years in tech, the author finds that Claude has condensed tasks that once took weeks or months into mere hours, often leaving them feeling like a mere spectator "watching it do the work."
With the company aggressively pushing for automated software development via agents within certain guardrails, the author is experiencing an existential crisis and professional emptiness over the tech industry's future: the stronger AI gets, the more "boring" their job seems to become.
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