问HN：我在软件开发中感到疲惫不堪。接下来该怎么办？
当我在青少年时期开始编程，并在二十出头时将其变成我的工作时，我感到无比快乐。我从未将编程作为职业是因为金钱或声望，青少年通常不太关心现实生活中的收入有多少。
随着时间的推移，我意识到编码并不是最终目标。那些获得最多奖励的人并不是真正的程序员，而是在做架构和设计文档。更好的是，他们管理那些编写代码的人。单纯地编写代码被视为进入某种“真实”职业的中介步骤——在企业环境中成为一个优秀的“沟通者”。
但我仍然坚持下去。我可以在日常工作中成为一个企业小螺丝钉——最终薪水不错——同时在空闲时间里忙于写自己的东西，尝试建立自己的业务。但最终的致命一击却是——大型语言模型（LLMs）。
我以为我可以避免这一切，但似乎每家公司都在强制推行，因为提高生产力！！所以起初我抵制，但后来有人暗示我，如果不跟上，自己的工作可能会面临风险。市场糟糕，我现在是成年人，肩负着成年人的责任，换工作也不再那么容易。而且，没有人能保证下一个工作不会追随人工智能的潮流。因此，我咽下这颗苦药，开始使用并接受人工智能，希望再次重用我过去的模式——在工作中成为他们想要的样子，在空闲时间享受“手艺”。
但是，人工智能甚至在我的空闲时间也剥夺了我对手艺的乐趣。如果我不使用人工智能来建立自己的SaaS/业务，那么其他人将会更快“进入市场”。如果我使用，那么我将创造出我不在乎的劣质软件。
我开始想象放弃一切去做木工或其他事情，同时努力在日常工作中坚持下去，直到人工智能不可避免地取代我（无论是它自己，还是因为一大批生于这个世界的年轻人将变得比我更有能力）。
而我不再知道该怎么办。我的日常工作有一个过期日期。可能是5年，也可能是15年。我曾希望建立一家科技公司，逃离“老鼠赛跑”，但我再也找不到任何动力或愿望去做，因为人工智能基本上消除了所有进入的门槛。我几十年的经验几乎在一夜之间消失，我正在与每个拥有Claude账户的人竞争。或者，也许我只是个糟糕的商人。不管怎样，我感到被困住了。我不再从这个几乎花了20年时间塑造的身份中获得乐趣。
所以，亲爱的HN，接下来该怎么办？
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When I start to program as a teenager, and it became my job in my early twenties, I was happy over the moon. I never made it my career because of money or prestige, teenagers rarely care about how much things pay in real life.<p>Over the years, I've learned that coding is not the ultimate goal. People who get rewarded the most are not doing coding at all but doing aRcHiTecTure and DeSigN dOcuMents. Or better, manage the ones who write code. Purely writing code is seen as an intermediary step into something "real" - the true profession of being a good ~bullshitter~ communicator in a corporate environment.<p>But I kept going. I could be the corporate worm at my day-to-day job - it pays well in the end - while messing with writing my own stuff and trying to build a business in my free time. But then, the final nail on the coffin came in - LLMs.<p>I thought I could avoid it, but it seems like every company just mandates It's because pRodUctiVity!!!!111 So at first I resisted, then I was hinted that if I won't catch up, my job could be at risk. The market is shit, I am an adult now so I have adult responsibilities, and changing jobs is no longer that easy. Plus, nobody guarantees that the next job won't jump on the AI bandwagon. So I swallowed the pill, and started to use, and embrace, AI, hoping, once again, to reuse my old pattern - be who they want me to be at work, and enjoy the "craft" in my free time.<p>But AI has sucked the joy of the craft even in my free time. If I don't use AI to build my own SaaS / business - then others will "get to market" faster. If I do, then I will create a slopware for which I don't care.<p>I started to imagine dropping it all and doing woodworking or something, while trying to slowly grind through my day-to-day job until AI will inevitably replace me (either by itself, or because of an influx of young people who are born into that world, will just become more capable than me).<p>And I no longer know what to do. My day-to-day job has an expiration date. It could be 5 years, it could be 15. I was hoping to build a tech business and escape the "rat race", but I am no longer able to find any motivation or desire to do so, as AI basically remove any barrier to entry. My decades of experience vanished basically overnight, and I am competing with everyone who has access to a Claude account. Or maybe I'm just a bad businessman. Anyway, I feel trapped. I no longer get enjoyment from a thing that was, and is, my identity that I have crafted almost 20 years.<p>So dear HN, what's next?