AI Isn't Replacing Developers - It's Turning Us Into Underpaid Bot Babysitters

The future of engineering was supposed to look like this: AI handles the boring stuff. Humans focus on architecture, hard problems, and product. What it often looks like instead: juniors (and some seniors) blasting Claude or other LLMs with vague prompts, copy‑pasting whatever comes out into massive PRs, you spending your week diff‑diving, untangling “AI slop,” and explaining basic trade‑offs in code review. The robots didn’t take your job. They just turned you into an underpaid bot babysitter. AI didn’t automate away my work.