Why does every software platform keep shoving AI down our throats?
Unwanted AI shifts and declining product quality are alienating long-term developers and destroying the value of years of specialized certifications. This forces veteran professionals to abandon ecosystems they rely on for their livelihoods or exhaust themselves constantly pivoting to new careers.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- The most recent one is from September 2026.
- This comes up 74.1× more often in r/salesforce than across the site as a whole.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1expanding skills outside of the ecosystemDid this help you?
- 2looking for new platforms and migrating customers offDid this help you?
- 3exiting the ecosystem entirely to change careers or downsizeDid this help you?
- 4Migrating to cloud offerings or alternative toolsDid this help you?
- 5Switching back to simpler built-in tools like Windows DefenderDid this help you?
- 6Ripping out the problematic software entirelyDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“The last 2 years have completely killed my overall interest for the platform and i would never recommend it, and even if it still is what puts food on the table i've started looking for new platforms”source ↗
“I’m 6x certified but was part of their design. I doubt i ever work for anything Salesforce again so i feel like i wasted 9 years on that and its useless to most”source ↗
“Boss I am tired learning new skills and pivot to new career now at this stage ...not young anymore.”source ↗
“we had to support it, it wanted a massive bare metal server for indexing.”source ↗
“Half of the people would get notifications; half wouldn't. The reporting was garbage.”source ↗
“There was so many false-positives, performance issues and what not that we ultimately decided to rip it out and just run Windows Defender.”source ↗
“One of ours was a monitoring agent that looked great in the demo but ended up generating so much noise that the team spent more time tuning alerts than actually using the data.”source ↗
Where this came up
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