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Heliomass
Heliomass
@heliomass@mstdn.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Yeah, this not good. Perhaps it would help if CEOs stopped ramming AI down the throats of engineers?

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/6/tom-dale/

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A quote from Tom Dale

I don't know why this week became the tipping point, but nearly every software engineer I've talked to is experiencing some degree of mental health crisis. [...] Many people assuming …
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Émilio Gonzalez
Émilio Gonzalez
@res260@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@heliomass I have not experienced that with any of my software engineer friends. This reads as a little dramatic? 🤔

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@heliomass@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@res260 I thought about this a bit more, and went back and re-read the original post. I don't know the motivations of the person who wrote it, but it almost sounds like a statement that engineers struggling to get on the AI bandwagon need to stop being such snowflakes. The language of the post is... really odd.

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