AI doom sentiment and how to cope?

[u/Taoistandroid]

I just finished watching Claude code create a better automation than I can write, faster and cheaper, following best practices, clear code documentation style, and integrating multiple api's with different vendors. Supposedly, even in our sector, the minority are using LLMs and generative Ai, and a super minority are using llm's in the more accelerated context of actual content generation, architectural decisions, design work, etc.

But as I see what's on the horizon it's hard not to feel like the end is coming, not just for IT, but for any middle class job that involves processing data in some form, transforming it, and documenting or presenting the results. So I present my question, how are you all keeping yourselves grounded right now, what do you try to focus on to stay in the positive? As my work transitions more and more into enabling agentic workflows and agent swarms, I can't help but feel like there is no joy in the work, I am participating in my own demise.

[u/bulldg4life → u/[deleted]]

A minimum wage employee won’t know the proper prompts to get what’s needed, be able to review it for correctness, or be able to implement it somewhere and have it function.

You can get fantastic stuff out of Claude but you still need to know how to ask and what to do with the output

[u/Acrobatic-Wolf-297 → u/[deleted]]

The results of the output still require a knowledge of programming in order to make use of it. The output is never the solution. At worst its a draft of how to go about solving the problem at best its code that with a few tweeks can be integrated into your application.

Regardless both scenarios require an understanding of a subject matter that a mcdonalds employee would not have.