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The author quits a stable design-engineering role after growing frustrated with unchecked AI tools disrupting meetings, code reviews, and design processes. They trace their burnout to constant AI pressure, abandoned industry ideals, and a sense that shortcuts have overtaken craftsmanship.
- Quit a well-paying, remote, benefits-included design-engineering job despite strong performance metrics because unchecked AI adoption made the work untenable.
- Daily friction came from AI tools deployed without consent or review: auto note-takers in meetings, unverified chatbot answers in Slack, mass-merged AI-generated code, and bot-driven PR feedback replacing human collaboration.
- Frames the exhaustion using Freudenberger's definition of burnout as "political defeat" - grief over watching tech's early-2010s user-centered, civic-minded ideals get replaced by profit-chasing and political appeasement.
- Distinguishes this from ordinary overwork: the burnout stems from constantly deciding whether to push back against imposed AI shortcuts, not from hours or workload.