Software engineering is the only career where the interview feels like the Olympics and the job feels like maintenance mode.
You grind dynamic programming for months.
Then spend your workday fixing API bugs and renaming variables.
Black Mirror S8E1: In 2027, developers are allocated a daily Claude token allowance by the government. A junior dev burns through his entire month's supply trying to centre a div. His family starve. He is forced to write the codehimself. He can't. Society collapses.
Somewhere out there is a guy who uses Notion, Superhuman, OpenClaw on a Mac Mini, Raycast, a mechanical keyboard ($400), Wispr Flow, and gets nothing done every day
Garry Newman, creator of Garry's Mod, compared heavy Al use in coding to p*rn addiction.
"My thoughts on Al with programming are basically the same as p0rn. So, like, if you use too much p0rn, you lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination."