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S1E34 Everyone Says AI Is Too Expensive. They're Wrong.
Every few weeks, a new headline appears claiming that AI is becoming unsustainably expensive.Companies are reportedly burning through millions of dollars a month on AI subscriptions. Some…
S1E33 AI Is Destroying India's Outsourcing Industry?
Every once in a while, I make the mistake of opening LinkedIn.I know I should not.For an unemployed former Big Tech engineer, LinkedIn often feels like an abusive relationship. I log in knowing there…
S1E32 How I’m Preparing My Family for a Changing World Order (WW3?)
Hello world,One strange side effect of unemployment is that it gives you something modern life rarely provides anymore.Time.For twenty five years I worked in tech. Like many engineers, I spent most…
S1E31 The Real Reason They're Racing To Build AI?
The Future That Quietly Keeps Me Up at NightHello world,For the first time in more than two decades, I suddenly found myself with something I hadn’t had in years:Time.After spending 25 years as a…
S1E30 The Tech Layoff Crisis No One Wants to Talk About
Another week passes and another wave of layoffs crashes through the technology industry like a tidal wave. At this point, the disappearance of thousands of highly experienced engineers has become so…
S1E29 I Never Understood This Kind Of Love… Until I Had A Daughter
Mother’s Day weekend took us to Pennsylvania to visit my parents.At some point during dinner at a fancy Chinese restaurant, an amusing but strangely revealing family intervention unfolded across the…
Quantum Computing Is a Lie (Here’s What I Discovered)
Hello world.I’m an unemployed ex–Big Tech software engineer, watching from the outside as the industry I helped build pours billions into its next obsession: quantum computing.Some say it’s the next…
S1E27 The Career Advice You Grew Up With Is Dead in the Age of AI
Reflections from an unemployed ex–Big Tech engineer navigating a changing worldHello world.For the first time in more than two decades, I find myself standing outside the system I once helped…
S1E26 Why Are So Many People Secretly Losing Interest in Everything?
There was a moment at a small, crowded Chinese restaurant in Queens that I haven’t been able to shake.I’ve been on an unexpected pause in life lately, an ex–big tech software engineer with 25 years…
S1E25 STOP Paying for Subscriptions — Build This Homelab Instead
Hello world,There’s something oddly clarifying about involuntary stillness.After 25 years in big tech, I didn’t expect “early retirement” to be the thing that finally gave me perspective but here we…
S1E24 AI Doomerism Is Getting Out of Control — Let’s Break the Myths Apart One by One
Hello world,I’m an unemployed ex–big tech software engineer with 25 years in the industry. That sentence tends to land somewhere between confession and credibility, depending on how charitable you’re…
S1E24 This Is All You Need to Retire Early (Shocking Math)
After 25 years in the tech industry, I never expected to be here—unemployed, months removed from Big Tech, and living what can only be described as an involuntary early retirement.And yet, something…
S1E22 100 Days After My Layoff as an Engineer… The Truth
It’s been over 100 days since I was laid off from Big Tech after a 25+ year career in the tech industry. What followed wasn’t panic or fear, but something far more complex: a complete rewiring of how…
S1E21 Tech Layoffs EXPOSE the Dark Truth About H1B Workers
It’s another week, another wave of layoffs, and once again the same question bubbles to the surface: who or what is really responsible?For many American software engineers, the H-1B visa program has…
S1E20 AI Is Making Software Worthless Faster Than Anyone Realizes
I didn’t expect to find it in my home office, finishing up a quick side project. But there it was, a realization that hit harder than any production outage I’ve ever debugged:What used to take a…
S1E19 At 5AM I Passed Out at Work… Then Everything Changed
These days, in my unexpected post–Big Tech era, I spend a fair amount of time cooking for my family.There are worse fates.On this particular day, I was making stir-fried pork and turnips, which felt…
S1E18 This Conflict Could End the AI Bubble Overnight
The other day, I was standing at a gas pump, watching the numbers climb beside my aging Honda CR-V, when something felt… off.Gas prices had jumped nearly 40% in a single week.That kind of movement…
S1E17 Day in the Life of a Laid Off Big Tech Engineer
Hello world.Not long ago, I was a senior software engineer in Big Tech, part of an industry that once felt like the unstoppable engine of the modern economy. For more than 25 years, my days were…
S1E16 “Why Even Try?” — What My Son Told Me About Gen Z’s Future Shocked Me
Hello world.I’m an unemployed former Big Tech software engineer with 25 years in the technology industry. These days I joke that I’m in “involuntary early retirement.”One unexpected side effect of…
S1E15 Mid-Level Engineers Are in Trouble (Here’s the Escape Plan)
Many years ago, I was a mid-level developer at a consulting company. I remember staring up at the org chart and wondering how people became architects, then senior architects, then technical…
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