AI Engineer Hands Off Coding, Suddenly Wondering What To Do With Life
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- •Rohan Gore, an AI engineer at Reach3 Insights in Vancouver, stopped coding in December 2025.
- •While relieved to focus on architecture and design, he worries about AI fully automating his tasks in the future.
- •He said AI increases productivity but also expectations, causing burnout despite less hands-on coding.
Rohan Gore, a 38-year-old AI engineer at Vancouver's Reach3 Insights, proudly announced he hasn't coded since December 2025 — handing his keyboard to AI like a millennial quitting Facebook. After graduating computer science in 2010, he marinated in marketing research software until AI showed up, took over his coding, and left him staring at Slack messages admitting he could never match these '10% as good' coding bots. While thrilled to speed up feature delivery from a month to three days, he now battles burnout as expectations skyrocket and frets about AI someday taking his job completely, possibly before he figures out how to explain this worry to his grandma.
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(1 of 3)Guy spent 15 years coding, gave AI his mouse in December, now feels personally replaced by an unlicensed robot prodigy. Welcome to adulthood.
When your job evolves from coding ninja to AI minder, but burnout still arrives like an unwanted bingo caller.
Rohan Gore hasn't coded since December but now critiques product managers; apparently AI frees you to poke the boss instead.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 3/25/2026 | Author: Ana Altchek
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