Senior developers report declining motivation as AI tools delegate away architectural and coding work
Two separate discussions on Hacker News surface developer dissatisfaction with agentic AI delegation. A 16-year senior engineer reported that most work is now delegated to AI tools over the past 2-3 years, reducing coding interest, and 80 percent of development candidates now direct agents rather than writing code manually.
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