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In this brave blog post, Ana shares what it has been like to work in the tech industry while also happening to have lady bits. There are times when I wonder what my life would have been like if I’d finished my computer science degree ... and when I read posts like this one, I find myself feeling very fortunate that I ultimately declared a different major.

Richard (AKA Ragman) is deeply resentful about what AI is doing to the software development community. While drafting an angry blog post about vibe coding, he realized “angry blog posts aren’t the kind of thing I want to be putting out in the world.” Speaking as someone who is also prone to getting caught up in how angry generative AI makes me, Richard’s post resonated with me a lot. I’m still keeping myself somewhat informed, but I’m also trying to spend a lot less time thinking and talking about how much I loathe what generative AI is doing to the things I love. I’d rather think and talk about the things I love.

Eamon discusses his antipathy for generative AI and what it’s like to work in tech at a time when virtually all of his peers are completely enamoured with chatbots. The post is mainly written for members of future generations who may wonder what on earth possessed tech workers in the present moment to “[lose] their minds over a neat trick.”