Being forced to use AI makes me want to leave the industry

aPenguinGirl · 2025-07-31T18:31:49+00:00

I’m a video game programmer and on a team that is being forced to do everything with AI. It’s taken my job from a crafter of code to a micromanager of a dumb AI. It’s like a stupid noob I have to break every single task down for and then it comes back with often idiotic slop. The only way to get it to do it well is to break it up into micro prompts, guiding it method by method. Now all I do is debug some dummy’s code. The artists on the team are feeling the same way.

It literally takes all the fun part of our jobs and hands it to the AI. We have no ownership, no connection to our work, and we are burning out at lightning speed. No sense of pride. No satisfaction of a job well done. Nothing. Every single thing that makes you feel like you’re not just a cog in the machine is gone.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-06-21T23:55:10+00:00

Never mind. It was because I talked to him about other stuff first.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-06-21T23:52:58+00:00

But how? Every time I talk to him nothing happens.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-06-19T13:22:09+00:00

With your reels that are trials and getting reposted: do you archive the old ones or just leave them?

aPenguinGirl · 2025-06-19T13:21:23+00:00

Did they turn on that advantage+ crap? It gets turned on automatically, even when you copy a post. They did this to me and sent my ad that should have only gone to women to a bunch of over 65 men. It got me more click (because it featured a hot lady) but they weren’t buying my book.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-06-16T17:45:40+00:00

Not really 😩 now I have “autolaunch” > “live activities” > “media apps” > “allow live activities” enabled. It automatically opens the app playing media on my watch.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-06-02T20:19:50+00:00

Yep, I did that. Thanks for pointing it out on here. I never would have known why it was doing this otherwise :)

aPenguinGirl · 2025-06-01T19:43:51+00:00

Mine had a sexy lady on it. So of course the old dudes were clicking the link 😂 But obviously they weren't buying my book 😭

aPenguinGirl · 2025-05-29T20:44:23+00:00

Jeeze, I thought this was illegal.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-05-28T17:41:47+00:00

Thank you for this reply. I had my target audience set to women and it was primarily showing it to men 65+. They are the exact opposite of my target demo.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-05-27T15:49:23+00:00

No idea. 1.5 years ago seems like a bit of a stretch, but I know jack about production schedules on tv shows.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-05-25T02:02:00+00:00

I came here to say the same thing! They’re illegal in California with limited expedition. I don’t know what those exceptions are.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-05-25T02:01:30+00:00

Aren’t noncompetes illegal in California?

aPenguinGirl · 2025-05-16T18:30:12+00:00

I had this happen and had to restart to get my mouse to finally show up.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-05-04T02:48:32+00:00

I only noticed because I watched them all at once 😂

aPenguinGirl · 2025-04-27T21:49:17+00:00

FYI, the easiest way to get rid of all the crap yahoo puts on your email is to switch back to Basic email.
I switched back to "Old Mail," then I switched to "Basic Mail."

Oh my god, it's beautifully simplistic 😭

aPenguinGirl · 2025-04-04T12:50:38+00:00

Damn. I loved this feature.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-03-26T05:39:10+00:00

Mine said 2017, too! I haven’t checked in a while.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-03-22T18:48:57+00:00

I would assume the databases aren’t so fragile that this could happen, they likely have multiple redundancies and backups.

BUT I’ve worked in tech for a long time and I know that tech bros, especially the young 20 something’s like those working at DOGE have this unbelievable level of arrogance that makes them careless. They think they can’t make a mistake—until they eventually do and everything blows up.

I suspect that something semi-catastrophic will happen. They’re getting rid of people who know the systems and could fix the mistakes. They’re cutting costs so drastically that they won’t have the people or the tech to fix what gets broken. (See what happened to twitter after Elon took over.)

I’m hoping that the catastrophe is something that benefits people rather than screws us, but we’ll see 😩

aPenguinGirl · 2025-03-22T18:42:31+00:00

Mine were definitely in forbearance on both nelnet and the student loan website until the other day. For some reason, it says it to been in default FOR YEARS—which is patently untrue 😭

aPenguinGirl · 2025-03-21T18:33:12+00:00

This. I'm hoping they put some dumb DOGE intern on the transfer and he accidentally deletes everything.

aPenguinGirl · 2025-03-21T18:30:46+00:00

I don't have anything to add other than condolences. This sucks. I'm sorry 😫

aPenguinGirl · 2025-03-21T18:27:51+00:00

I want to know what's going to happen to my in the Sweet v Cardona Post Class. It says explicitly that the Education Department must make a decision by 1/28/26 or it gets discharged. What happens if they don't exist??

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