
If you listen to the loudest voices in the AI debate, our collective fate seems sealed. AI is coming for white-collar work. Jobs will disappear faster than workers can adapt. A workplace apocalypse is inevitable.
Much of the noise is coming from one place: the technology industry itself. That’s understandable. Software engineering is one of the first professions where AI has delivered real, visible productivity gains. Output that once required teams now requires far fewer people. When disruption hits close to home, anxiety travels fast.