So what are the career options for a senior engineer in the IT industry that avoid AI entirely in 2025?

I'm tired, boss. Tired of keeping my mouth closed about it at work. Tired of waking up angry that my employer and industry at large are:

* Pushing hard to adopt an absolute crap technology with very low accuracy and consistency, which additionally has had noticeable affects on certain co-workers ability to understand a problem and picture the solution (those who seem to be offloading their thinking to AI over the last year have notably degraded in these areas)
* Supporting the enrichment of billionaire fascists who want to manipulate and control the truth and control the population to make themselves richer.
* Supporting the re-ignition of coal power plants and burning significant amounts of power and water to fuel these inefficient garbage bots.
* Generally increasing affordability problems on all fronts while also accelerating the climate disaster that will be central to my sons future.

I wake up every day angry, stressed, and mournful that I am contributing the destruction of my son's future while begrudgingly going to work in the name of his present; in order to keep him clothed, fed, and try to eek out some chance of a better financial future for our family.

I'm not sure how much longer I can keep helping drive the engine of the very destruction I want to put an end to.

There must be some companies out there doing things without AI and making technology choices that are moral. They can't all be sycophants feeding the investor greed machine.. help me find them. I need to know there are some options.

"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"

Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.

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3k boost edit: everyone who said a variant of "why should I pay" is right, but the world is wrong.

Federaal minister van Asiel en Migratie Anneleen Van Bossuyt verdraagt de kritiek niet dat ze een onmenselijk asielbeleid voert. Om dat te bewijzen, gaat ze de trottoirs in Brussel oplappen. ‘Mijn moederhart breekt bij het idee dat er kinderen moeten slapen op een trottoir vol putten en scheve tegels.’

https://vremdemirror.com/2025/10/03/van-bossuyt-wil-asielbeleid-menselijker-maken-brusselse-trottoirs-heraanleggen/

Israël vindt Palestina te klein om te erkennen: ‘Ook geen zicht op uitbreiding, integendeel’

https://vremdemirror.com/2025/09/26/israel-vindt-palestina-te-klein-om-te-erkennen-ook-geen-zicht-op-uitbreiding-integendeel/

Ik moest hard lachen. Omdat ik het nodig had. Misschien jij ook. Dan laat die lach uit je lijf rollen. De rest van de dagen en maanden zijn al zo somber en zwaar.

Fijne zondag.