Bobby

So shout out to Anastasia Uspensky at ShiftMag for really highlighting this particular point and pulling together a few other data points to try to figure out, she was trying to figure out why, why are they synthesized? And so you might think, well, it's the AI. The AI is taking away our joy. That doesn't seem like that's the case. At least that's what her conclusion is. It's not the AI.

So shout out to Anastasia Uspensky at ShiftMag for really highlighting this particular point and pulling together a few other data points to try to figure out, she was trying to figure out why, why are they synthesized? And so you might think, well, it's the AI. The AI is taking away our joy. That doesn't seem like that's the case. At least that's what her conclusion is. It's not the AI.

The AI is making us slightly more productive and maybe a little bit more apprehensive about the future. But currently, I think developers who are in their seats... writing code know that at least today they aren't being replaced in large swaths by AI. So if you're a good software developer today, you're not too worried about that, at least not in the present.

The AI is making us slightly more productive and maybe a little bit more apprehensive about the future. But currently, I think developers who are in their seats... writing code know that at least today they aren't being replaced in large swaths by AI. So if you're a good software developer today, you're not too worried about that, at least not in the present.

And it's not the stuff they're working on necessarily, but it is other things. Other things like tech debt and complexity. And so that kind of comes out in all kinds of different ways. But that was her finding. Abhi, do you have, you run a survey company, right? You guys create surveys for folks.

And it's not the stuff they're working on necessarily, but it is other things. Other things like tech debt and complexity. And so that kind of comes out in all kinds of different ways. But that was her finding. Abhi, do you have, you run a survey company, right? You guys create surveys for folks.

I don't mean to reduce. I don't mean to reduce.

I don't mean to reduce. I don't mean to reduce.

I don't mean to reduce, but you all help people do surveys. Yeah. Just curious your thoughts as we kick into this topic.

I don't mean to reduce, but you all help people do surveys. Yeah. Just curious your thoughts as we kick into this topic.

Right. I always go bigger when I see something like a industry like software development and I start thinking, and we don't have answers necessarily, but I start wondering like, well, how many of workers are happy? You know, just in general, like is 80% like ridiculously large. It is an absolute terms, right? It's four out of five. That's a large percentage.

Right. I always go bigger when I see something like a industry like software development and I start thinking, and we don't have answers necessarily, but I start wondering like, well, how many of workers are happy? You know, just in general, like is 80% like ridiculously large. It is an absolute terms, right? It's four out of five. That's a large percentage.

But if we compared it to some other industry, right. You know, medical workers, teachers, plumbers, pick your industry. Would they be at like maybe 75% or 85% or are they down there in the 40s and 50s? And we're way out of line. That's the question that I usually ask and I don't have the answer ever. So I kind of just twiddle my thumbs and move on.

But if we compared it to some other industry, right. You know, medical workers, teachers, plumbers, pick your industry. Would they be at like maybe 75% or 85% or are they down there in the 40s and 50s? And we're way out of line. That's the question that I usually ask and I don't have the answer ever. So I kind of just twiddle my thumbs and move on.

Yeah. It's a relatively stable industry. I mean, you're always going to have people with plumbing, new plumbing, plumbing problems, et cetera. So it's not as much affected by perhaps the Federal Reserve like we are. The medical industry went through a huge swell, of course, during COVID, where there was just so many needs for medical workers that their salaries went through the roof.

Yeah. It's a relatively stable industry. I mean, you're always going to have people with plumbing, new plumbing, plumbing problems, et cetera. So it's not as much affected by perhaps the Federal Reserve like we are. The medical industry went through a huge swell, of course, during COVID, where there was just so many needs for medical workers that their salaries went through the roof.

They were in huge demand. Of course, they worked ridiculously long and

They were in huge demand. Of course, they worked ridiculously long and

trying hours and so that was probably not producing happiness but the pay was really really good and now coming down on the other side of it it's similar to the software world where it's like demand is waning jobs are harder to find you may go unemployed for a while and so there's probably a similar chart if you were to chart overall demand

trying hours and so that was probably not producing happiness but the pay was really really good and now coming down on the other side of it it's similar to the software world where it's like demand is waning jobs are harder to find you may go unemployed for a while and so there's probably a similar chart if you were to chart overall demand