[hyfgfh]

People have the notion that tech workers are overpaid man-children that have to be babysat by their companies

The reality is, we're constantly dealing with increasingly tighter deadlines and unreasonable demands to deliver products that, even if they make it to market, are likely to be shut down within five years. We're basically glorified sandcastle builders

With AI, things have gotten even worse, people now believe everything is easy just because they can build a to-do app with a prompt

[znpy]

From what I’ve seen, tech workers *used* to be what you describe, it’s just not like that anymore.

The faangs are not that appealing anymore.