AI is becoming the easiest explanation for tech layoffs, but most of the industry's recent cuts were driven by overhiring, investor pressure, and changing economic conditions long before AI became the headline.
Tech companies spend millions trying to improve retention while avoiding the conversation most likely to solve the problem: the quality of the people managing their teams.
Burnout in tech is no longer surprising. That should scare leadership teams. Exhaustion has become normalized across engineering organizations, and most companies are still treating it like a wellness issue instead of a structural leadership failure.
An honest conversation about software development, leadership, AI, burnout, impostor syndrome, and why authenticity matters more than corporate polish.
Leadership rarely feels heavy because of big decisions.
It feels heavy because of the invisible work that never gets written down, tracked, or acknowledged.
This is about naming that work and giving it structure.
