alt.hn

2/7/2026 at 12:03:12 AM

Software engineer mental health crisis

 https://twitter.com/tomdale/status/2019640306342457450

by xnx

2/7/2026 at 1:27:06 AM

Computing switched from liberating our communities to enslaving them and no one feels good about it.

by nacozarina

2/7/2026 at 5:24:16 AM

Tech CEOs do.

by welfareleech

2/7/2026 at 1:03:18 AM

I had some of my own struggles but I really started noticing this more broadly in the last 2-3 years. I'm not sure if Covid did it, the end of ZIRP did it, or what, but there was a shift where suddenly almost every SE I would talk to seemed to be burned out. I can think of a lot of potential reasons but honestly the thing that jumped out at me the most is how almost in perfect sync it seemed to happen across the profession. It's a real bummer, I remember when SE was a pretty fun profession and people seemed generally pretty happy coming to work. (Maybe this was some kind of illusion though or I was just lucky where I worked at the time. I've heard plenty of death march horror stories from the old timers too.)

by thisoneisreal

2/7/2026 at 12:30:31 AM

Reading Tom Dale’s comments in that thread leaves me with one thought: leave clinical diagnoses to the professionals.

by andsoitis