Reddit Experience · Apr 2026

Anyone feels unlucky and sad?

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Any juniors here feel unlucky with the time we graduate? It seems every company is moving AI first and you rarely get to experience "actual" swe work you learnt and read about in school. Like sure you

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Any juniors here feel unlucky with the time we graduate? It seems every company is moving AI first and you rarely get to experience "actual" swe work you learnt and read about in school. Like sure you code but the ai handles all the syntax and boilerplate even for non trivial work, you just need to know what the code roughly looks like. Not to mention the future feels so uncertain with jobs keep getting cut and a more powerful ai agent every few weeks. I hate nothing more than copy pasting code and typing endless prompts into claude.

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