[anarticle]

The impact for me was I quit and founded a company, got funded. I work with my friends and it's great.

Corpos are very sick right now, friends that stayed behind with +8y xp are very burnt out and annoyed having to deal with barely functional employees for a "peanut butter" raise.

[karmakurtisaani]

AI has been an excellent excuse for holding back new hires. It might give me a 20% productivity boost, but that doesn't help if my workload increases by 50%.

[anarticle]

Exactly this, if you stay on the ship you only get everyone else's job. It sounds like you're more valuable which is the trap, because there is no more money in the banana stand.

I'd rather make -20% less and work with people who don't drive me crazy while having an equity stake in the company. It may not pay off, but I'll tell ya what, my blood pressure is a lot lower!