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I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?

It’s fun _for you_ but that doesn’t mean it’s universally the part of the job everyone enjoys. There is also no requirement for jobs to be fun—we were just lucky. But I am concerned that the reason so many people are in this job is because of the dopamine rush, and that might be going