Devs say AI killed their joy. The rot started before ChatGPT.

AI didn't kill your joy. You just finally noticed it was gone. A post went viral on a developer forum for career advice. It captured a feeling many had been unable to put into words: coding just wasn’t fun anymore. The poster had a convenient scapegoat: AI. And thousands of people nodded along. But I think they're pointing the finger at the wrong thing. The rot was already there It's not a new phenomenon that developers have been experiencing burnout for so long. The pressure to sh...