Engineers Today Don't Get to Experience: From Pair Programming to Joy
KevinNaughtonJr · x · 2026-10-09
A viral quip about engineering culture in the AI era: engineers today don't get to experience human code review, pair programming, handwriting code, merge conflicts, design review, reading code, debugging, thinking, typing — or joy. The list riffs on how AI coding tools erase each traditional part of the developer experience.
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