The software engineers are not alright. AI was supposed to make programming easier. Siddhant Khare said that while AI tools have made him more productive, his job is now harder than ever. "We used to call it an engineer, now it is like a reviewer," Khare told Business Insider. "Every time it feels like you are a judge at an assembly line and that assembly line is never-ending, you just keep stamping those PRs." Khare wrote a lengthy essay titled "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it."