Today I saw that post about AI destroying the future of West software. I remembered I am having a similar struggle with my jobs.

Right now my life is like this: some company lost their senior, they hire me to replace. They expect me to produce code with same speed and same quality in 2 months.

Then they realize they are late actually (one company for example was 6 months late to deliver to clients) and want me to use AI to churn out code even faster.

Meanwhile I find out they lost all people that knew how things actually worked, there is no documentation, or worse, the documentation is outright wrong ( one project I worked had thousands of Jira tickets generated from a requisites document. After some months of politicking I got permission to see the requisites document and learned it was from another project entirely, they wasted years coding with the wrong requisites outright! )

Then as I get close to the end of probation period, the company tried some kind of hail Mary, one company thought maybe I would be more useful if they fired their DevOps and asked me to do the job of the senior engineer that had quit, the fired DevOps, and learn Go (I was hired as C dev, not even CPP) in 2 weeks. Then when the absurd hail mary fails I get fired.

For a while I have been trying again and again with always same results, tried to see what I was doing wrong, and now I concluded I am looking for a job in the wrong places.

Every time I got fired the same criticism happened: I spent too much time going into "rabbit holes" and figuring out details of legacy code or debugging or fixing things or refactoring, and not enough time just shipping code fast enough to appease clients. I keep trying to change this behavior and fail, maybe I should instead find a job where this behavior is something good instead of something bad, but I have no idea where to look.