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This Is the Dumbest Possible Moment to Be Working in Tech
Is anyone actually working or are we all just shoveling shit at each other until we’re all broke and homeless?
Working in tech in 2026 is just a never-ending circle jerk of AI slop instructions and results being passed around infinitely.
Because every project in tech right now works the same way.
The call
The tech company has a call with the client. Half the people on that call are not even listening, because an AI note taker is already listening for them.
After the call, they take the transcript from it and put it into Claude. Then they say, what do we need to do for this client?
Claude comes back with a long list of tasks and a very confident summary. They take those instructions. They do not read them. They paste them into a ticket and pass them off to someone internally.
The employee
That person who’s supposed to do the work opens the ticket. It is two screens long. They look at it for about four seconds, copy the whole thing, and put it into Claude without reading it.
