Mariaelena Caputi for BI
System overload
Complicity grief, liquidity anxiety: Silicon Valley therapists are confronting a lot of new neuroses.
Mariaelena Caputi for BI
By Tracy Connor
Tech workers built the AI boom. Now their therapists are helping them cope with the fallout.
Complicity grief, liquidity anxiety: Silicon Valley therapists are confronting a lot of new neuroses in their tech worker clients.
TL;DRAI
Burnout among tech workers surged from 44.4% to 55.7% in 2026; engineers suffer "complicity grief" as the AI they built automates their peers. Senior engineers see no engineering career within a decade—critical talent churn toward startups and non-tech roles looms.
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