When You Stop Loving What You Do

AI seems to be accelerating this feeling, at least with many of my friends. There is a sense of malaise and frustration at what appears to be the slow erosion of intentional care and effort in our industry. Just let the AI do it, while you ... do other stuff.

I'm not quite there yet. I believe you can use AI as a virtual assistant that does the stuff that actually causes burnout in the first place. Creating and updating READMEs, ensuring the code on your docs is correct, writing a script that compiles markdown to a PDF - things like that.