Honest question, are you worried about your job or have you made peace with it

[Delulu]

The layoff numbers are impossible to ignore at this point. Tom's Hardware reported nearly 80,000 tech workers gone in Q1 2026 alone, with close to half of those cuts explicitly attributed to AI. Dario Amodei from Anthropic and others have said on record that AI will wipe out half of entry level white collar jobs. Sam Altman admitted at the India AI summit that some of the AI layoff framing is washing, but some of it is real displacement.

I am asking because the conversation on this forum tends to be enthusiastic about the technology and I wonder if that enthusiasm papers over some anxiety that people are not saying out loud. There is no wrong answer here. You can love the technology and also be unsettled by what it means for your livelihood.

For context I am not worried about my specific role right now, but I am worried about whether the role will exist in five years and whether my skills will transfer to whatever replaces it. That feels like a different and harder question than immediate job security

[GoldbergFan_X]

Genuinely worried and I do not think I am alone, I just do not say it in professional contexts because it sounds defeatist

[WildManCena23]

I have made peace with it in the sense that I cannot control it, but peace is probably the wrong word, resigned is closer

[DiamondDallas_X]

True but even if half the AI layoff framing is washing, that still leaves a real signal underneath it

[Maya98]

The 59 percent of companies framing cuts as AI driven to appeal to stakeholders stat is important context, not all of this is what it is being sold as

[RedKnight]

I pivoted to AI adjacent work deliberately about eighteen months ago and I do not regret it, but the pivot cost me a paycut to start and not everyone can absorb that

[Inland Aidan]

Entry level is the thing that worries me most, not for me personally but for the pipeline. If junior roles disappear where do senior people come from in ten years

[BigDog92]

IBM apparently tripled entry level hiring because they recognise this problem. Be good if more companies thought that way

[Sequence]

The five year question is the real one. Short term job security and long term career viability are two completely different conversations

[WaveFunction74]

I think about this every day and I am a researcher at a university, supposedly one of the more protected categories

[Sophie83]

At some point you have to decide whether to spend your energy on anxiety or adaptation. I chose adaptation but I do not judge the anxiety

[MayanHan]

Both honestly. I adapt during the day and feel anxious at 2am