we don’t blame you if you’re feeling burnt out. If keeping up with the latest and greatest in the tech world has been difficult for you

This year, we’re finding survey respondents are less happy in their work ... All that innovation and uncertainty can make it tough to feel comfortable in your job.

Next level gaslighting. People are not unhappy due to not being able to keep up or due to innovation. They are unhappy because the managers want to fire everybody and replace them with an LLM.

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/#software-developers-are-not-doing-well

Oh wow, a lot of people are jumping out of the current industry morass, turning to self-employment instead. I guess I'm not the only one!

I'm surprised they still got so many responses now that SO is dead.