I’ve been having these exact conversations for a while; the burnout, disheartening job searches, ghosting, blatant lack of respect, traumatising managers. No matter how much you do, it’s not enough.

@Brilliantcrank nails this down beautifully:

“That system isn't broken; it's functioning exactly as designed. Filtering. Discarding. Erasing. Only now it's worse, powered by algorithms and anxiety fuled urgency that have made human experience disposable.”

https://brilliantcrank.com/you-are-not-your-job-search-redux/

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work

https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/

"AI" coding assistants slow developers down. But they think they've become faster. Dunning-Kruger at work :) (Clarification: Dunning-Kruger has been debunked, but the term is generic enough to be used in this case: describing how we often overestimate our capacities and stay ignorant, even when objective results show we guessed wrong)

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

Week Notes 001: Getting things started https://aubreysambor.com/week-notes-001-getting-things-started/

Now I need to stick with posting these every week…

"But I like programming. I like writing. I like making things and then being able to sit back and look at them and think, holy fuck, I made that. There is no joy for me in typing a vague description into a computer and refreshing my way through a parade of Whatever until something is good enough."

From https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever by @eevee

Incidentally, I read the article with this energy: https://youtu.be/Xz7_3n7xyDg

At this point, the terribly confusingly named product "Drupal CMS" should be renamed to "Drupal AiCMS" or "Drupal AI/XP" or something.

Placate marketeers, warn potential users, and further distance the infernal contraption from Drupal Core in one fell swoop.