There was something fulfilling that died within me when I no longer had to debug my code. I can't tell you the specific date that this feeling began to spread. But there's a growing chorus of experienced developers saying the quiet part out loud: coding isn't fun anymore, and AI might be the reason. The Thread That Hit a Nerve A viral thread in a popular senior developer community recently went boom. The premise was simple: “coding doesn't seem fun anymore.” It wasn't burnout ...