SMRTR ProgrammingFeb 15, 2026Daily.dev

AI is slowly munching away my passion

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A programmer reflects on how AI has fundamentally changed their relationship with coding and their sense of professional identity. They explore losing the determinism they loved about programming, developing emotional reactions to algorithm outputs, and watching AI excel at tasks that once defined them professionally. The author grapples with credibility concerns as their GitHub contributions could now be dismissed as AI-generated.

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