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Oct 20

My Performance Review Included My AI Tool Usage Score. Nobody Had Told Me I Was Being Tracked.

The document had four sections. The fourth one was new. AI tool adoption. There was a score. There were sub-scores. At the bottom: below…

A software engineer sitting alone at a desk with their hand on their face while reading a laptop screen, representing the moment of discovering an unexpected AI tool adoption score in a performance review.

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Sep 22

Frontend Engineers Are Quietly Becoming the New Overhead.

Nobody’s getting laid off. Features are just getting shipped without us. I watched it happen at a sprint review on a Tuesday afternoon.

A software engineer looking at a Figma design file on a large monitor, representing the moment frontend engineers realized that AI tools like Figma Make could take designs directly to production without them.

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Sep 15

My Manager Uses AI to Write All Our Code Now. I Am Still on the Team. I Don’t Know What I Am.

My task queue has been empty for six weeks. My manager generates everything with Claude. I review the output. I have not found a mistake. I…

A software engineer standing alone at a laptop in a corporate office with a city skyline behind them, representing the experience of still showing up to work after an AI model has taken over writing all the production code.

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Aug 11

The Best Engineer on My Team Got Let Go. I Haven’t Felt Safe at Work Since.

He had a four-month-old review calling him one of the most technically valuable people on the team. Then his calendar invite disappeared on…

A nearly empty open-plan office with rows of vacant cubicles and workstations, representing the absence left behind when a top-performing engineer is unexpectedly let go from their team.

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Jul 21

My Company Announced RTO. I Had Bought a House Two Hours Away.

I did not get fired. I did not get a PIP. My performance was strong. I just live two hours from a decision I had no part in making.

An empty highway stretching into the distance at dawn, representing a software engineer’s two-hour daily commute after their company announced a mandatory return to office policy.

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1d ago

The Highest-Paying Software Jobs Quietly Moved Out of Big Tech.

Big Tech cut thousands of jobs again in October. Banks and healthcare firms are quietly outbidding it for the same engineers.

Low-angle view of a glass bank skyscraper under a gray sky, representing banks and healthcare firms outbidding Big Tech for software engineers.

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Oct 27

Data Engineers Are Quietly Becoming the New Overhead.

Nobody’s pipeline is getting shut down. Work is just quietly getting routed around the people who used to build it.

Data Engineers Are Quietly Becoming the New Overhead.

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Oct 13

We Haven’t Hired a Junior Engineer in Two Years.

The entry-level work still exists. The tickets still get implemented. What disappeared is the engineer who used to spend a day doing them…

Rows of empty chairs in a dark room with blue lighting, representing the vacant junior engineer seats at companies that have stopped hiring entry level engineers in 2026.

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Oct 6

My PM Started Vibe Coding Last Month. Now Every Feature Should Take an Hour.

It is the same conversation every sprint now. The demo looks finished. The timeline assumes it is. I am the one who has to explain why it…

A person working alone on a laptop in a dark corporate meeting room, representing the tension between a PM’s two-hour vibe-coded prototype and the production engineering work it implies.

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Sep 29

I Keep Flagging That Our AI-Generated Code Is Getting Worse.

Our velocity metrics have never looked better. Our on-call incidents are getting harder to explain. I have been trying to connect those two…

A software engineer kept flagging quality issues in AI-generated code. Leadership cited velocity. Then the 2am production incident happened.

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