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Whew! This pretty much sums up how I have been feeling about my career the last 6 months. Today, at work, we had a tongue-in-cheek "vibe coding" day where we practiced building primarily with AI tools. A part of me feels like this isn't what I signed up for when I became a software engineer. I am a builder not a manager. Yet, I was flabbergasting at how much I was able to build with claude. But building doesn't exactly describe what I did. And as the article suggests it does feel like managing and not building. I didn't read every line of code that was generated. I think describing the current zeitgeist as an identity crisis is spot on. Software engineering is going through a fundamental shift. But that has always been the case. The field has drastically evolved since it's inception. The only difference is that rate of change has increased such that it feels like we are experiencing a titanic shift. It certainly is an exciting time!