VC Says AI Coding Is Driving Engineers Into Depression While the Lazy Push Code They Never Read
Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das says the corporate push to tokenmaxx split engineering teams into vibe coders who never read their output and craftsmen drowning in the cleanup, leaving most engineers in 'an identity crisis bordering on depression.'
"Most software engineers are facing an identity crisis bordering on depression."
Business Insider (via Futurism)
Venture partner Deedy Das described a class divide where, as he put it, CTOs aggressively evangelize tokenmaxxing while the lazy push code they don’t write, don’t manually test, and don’t even read, running on autopilot. The veteran craftsmen who actually care about their profession are forced to wade through and fix the swamp of terrible AI code that comes their way, despondently questioning their livelihoods. Bosses bought the productivity pitch, and the bill arrived as burnout dumped on the people who still know how the software works. Some workplaces like Meta even factor a worker’s AI usage into their performance reviews. Management calls a flood of unreadable output progress, and the humans left holding the bugs call it depression. Futurism on engineers drowning in AI code
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