Working as a software engineer in 2026 is weird. At the start of this year, during the all-company meeting we do every year, it was made very clear that we were going to be adopting AI tools. The company would fall behind without it. And we’ve done just that. I’ve actually worked on the project that’s introducing Claude Code as a development tool at our company.
With all of this AI push, I’ve been feeling a little off about work. I think it’s uncertainty? It’s scary, right. AI is really cool, and it has the potential to do so much good, but so much bad too.
I think it’s not even that I’m scared of losing my job. It’s more that the passion is gone? I’m required to use Claude Code. It’s basically like “okay, Claude Code will do the development work, and you’ll prompt and review it as the software engineer.” But like, what’s the point anymore? The fun part of the job is effectively gone.
I don’t know, the future isn’t really set in stone, but I’m curious how all of this will pan out. Will the bubble pop? Maybe. Maybe it’s time for a career pivot.