Self-taught dev: reviewing agent code all day killed my love for programming
Specialist_Agent3599 · reddit · 2026-10-05
A self-taught developer describes how AI coding agents changed his relationship with programming: most of his job is now 6 hours a day reading diffs he didn't write and judging CodeRabbit comments. "The fun part was making something work that didn't work an hour ago. That's gone."
The habit has leaked into side projects too — his first instinct on weekends is to prompt and review, "and then it doesn't feel like mine." He's not quitting, but says he's "burnt out on the hobby without actually losing interest in it," and asks how others cope. The post resonated widely as a candid take on the shifting role of programmers in the agent era.
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