Jason Esguerra
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I built a site for exploring the stories behind AI discourse. Pick any thread, american dynamism, AI companions, the singularity, longevity, crypto, and you can follow it backward through myth, scripture, philosophy, literature, and tech history danabryce.com/inheritance




The tech workforce is splitting in two A year ago, we ran the first large-scale survey of how tech workers feel about their jobs and careers. What emerged we summarized in four words: burned out, but optimistic. Today, we're back with the results from our 2026 survey, and it's a tale of two workforces. Half of tech right now feels amplified by AI—more capable, more confident, more excited than they've been in their entire career. The other half feels shaken by it—less sure of their value and whether there’s still a place for them. Which side of that line you fall on predicts how you feel about your career more than anything else, including your role, seniority, company size, or any other measure we collected. The workforce is bifurcating into two realities. A few other takeaways that surprised us: + Significant burnout jumped from 44.7% to 55.7% in one year, while career optimism fell from 54.8% to 48.7%. A worrisome trend. + 53% of tech workers would steer a newcomer away from a career in their own role, even when they're optimistic about their own future. + The biggest AI fear is of being squeezed to do more work. Only 22% worry about “losing my job to AI.” Far more worry about being expected to do more for the same pay, getting trapped in an unsustainable pace, and the quality of their work declining. The question that best predicts how a tech worker feels about their work, in 2026, is no longer "What do you do?" or "Where do you work?" It’s "What has AI done to your sense of who you are?" Read the full report here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-wor…


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