--- title: Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists | daily.dev description: Software engineers are experiencing a form of grief as AI coding tools reshape or eliminate the traditional shape of their jobs, with the craft they trained... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/engineers-grieve-a-job-that-no-longer-exists-bjrtlygg2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists | daily.dev og:description: Software engineers are experiencing a form of grief as AI coding tools reshape or eliminate the traditional shape of their jobs, with the craft they trained... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/engineers-grieve-a-job-that-no-longer-exists-bjrtlygg2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BJRTlygg2.png og:image:alt: Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists **[Antonija Bilić Arar](https://daily.dev/sources/ufvojapqsnbhu2ytg8ses)** · [@tonkkatonka](https://daily.dev/tonkkatonka) · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Software engineers are experiencing a form of grief as AI coding tools reshape or eliminate the traditional shape of their jobs, with the craft they trained for and identified with disappearing. The piece explores the emotional and psychological toll on engineers whose sense of professional identity was tied to hands-on coding work, and frames the shift as a loss to be processed rather than just a workflow change. ## Content [https://leaddev.com/career-development/engineers-grieve-a-job-that-no-longer-exists](https://leaddev.com/career-development/engineers-grieve-a-job-that-no-longer-exists) ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@xendk** · 1 upvotes > People getting tired that AI is used to increase speed, not quality. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The grief when AI writes most of the code](https://daily.dev/posts/the-grief-when-ai-writes-most-of-the-code-ffmhwvqbd) · The Pragmatic Engineer · 33 upvotes · 6 comments - [Grief and the AI Split](https://daily.dev/posts/grief-and-the-ai-split-e2quitqnc) · Lobsters · 4 upvotes · 1 comments - [Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career](https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career-spsyq1hbc) · Hacker News · 59 upvotes · 14 comments - [Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career](https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career-uszacmbn5) · sean goedecke · 319 upvotes · 85 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/engineers-grieve-a-job-that-no-longer-exists-bjrtlygg2) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/engineers-grieve-a-job-that-no-longer-exists-bjrtlygg2","headline":"Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists","text":"Software engineers are experiencing a form of grief as AI coding tools reshape or eliminate the traditional shape of their jobs, with the craft they trained for and identified with disappearing. 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