I am scared!

This isn't your usual blog post. Yeah, I’m f*cking scared. You wanna know why? Stick around, I’ll spill the tea soon.

The first time I realized sh*t was about to hit the fan was in 2020. Yep, the year of COVID. The world got brought to its knees, everything shut down, and people were dropping like flies. And what was the hottest commodity? Not food, not medicine—freaking toilet paper. I mean, seriously?

Back then, I was an IT analyst. Heard a lot of people in public service jobs—restaurants, parks, entertainment—got canned. But somehow, I survived. And I got a taste of that work-from-home life for the first time. Gotta say, I kinda liked it.

Post-COVID, the tech industry was booming. Jobs everywhere. Companies were hiring IT personnel like crazy—even people with zero experience. They trained them up and threw them straight into the fire. It felt like, for once, something was actually going right.

After a bit of research, I found out that during the pandemic, banks and even the government were handing out huge loans to big companies with zero or minimal interest. And what did those companies do? Exactly what you'd expect—they expanded like crazy. Things were looking nice and easy.

But nah, that was just the universe setting us up for a sucker punch.

Just when us “IT guys” thought we could finally chill, AI smacked us in the face. Yeah, I knew about AI long before this, I’m an engineer after all. But then OpenAI made its grand entrance, and sh*t got real. Still, it seemed manageable at first, until suddenly, every other day, a new AI tool popped up—MidJourney, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion—an endless AI parade.

Then, the real f*ckery started: the big players—Meta (aka Facebook), Microsoft, Google—began laying people off like it was going out of style. One by one, just like a bad game of Whac-A-Mole. Why? Well, here’s the kicker—remember those billions of dollars the banks threw at these companies during COVID? Loans with zero to minimal interest? Yeah, those chickens came home to roost. Banks started cranking up the interest rates, and to keep profits up, companies started cutting people like sacrificial goats.

Now, sh*t’s uglier than ever. People who lost their jobs? It’s not as easy to bounce back. AI is standing in line, ready to take over. Automated systems are doing the work humans used to. Need an AI that can code? Done. Need one for accounting? Already exists. Whatever you want, there’s probably an AI for it.

You can even give an AI a voice command, and it’ll build a f*cking app for you. And yeah, a few months ago, I might’ve said, "Oh, companies will still need developers to manage this stuff." But let's be real—why keep 10 developers when you can cut 6 of them and let the AI handle all the boring, repetitive sh*t?

If every company chops even 10% of their workforce, that’s a massive number of jobs gone. And it’s not stopping. It’s only getting worse.

So yeah, I’m scared. Sh*t scared.

What’s next? I have no f*cking idea. If you thought this blog would end on a high note, with me offering some reassuring words about how everything’s gonna be fine—sorry to disappoint. Keep your chin up, brace for the worst, and do your best to adapt.

Cheers!