Ex-OpenAI Engineer: Coding Feels Less Fun in the Age of Agents
pritisinghhhh · x · 2026-09-01
An ex-OpenAI engineer discussed leaving the company, noting that building commercial software no longer feels fun to him personally. With agents writing most of the code, he observed that there is less human-to-human collaboration, making it a lonelier experience. Constant context switching prevents deep work and flow states, while the job becomes primarily code review and complexity reduction, which he finds mentally draining. He emphasized this is his subjective experience and not specific to OpenAI.
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