Everyone says our job got easier. The people doing it are quietly falling apart.
Here's the part nobody at the dinner table wants to hear: AI didn't make software engineering easy. It made it relentless.
Your uncle thinks you press a button now. Your PM thinks the estimate should be half what it used to be. LinkedIn thinks you're either an "AI-native 10x engineer" or a dinosaur waiting for the meteor. And somewhere in the middle of all that noise is you, doing two jobs at once and wondering when you stopped recognizing the one you signed up for.
If that landed, keep reading. This one's for you. 💡
The Lie Everyone Has Agreed To Believe
