Tech Workers

“What you're going to see is that AI has an outlier level, outsize impact on how people feel about their work more so than any other characteristic of their job, whether it's their role. The company they work for, the company size, their level, et cetera.”

“Only three percent of people reported that AI hasn't shifted their identity.”

“And what you can see is that as you move from the people who feel amplified to the people who feel diminished, career optimism goes down significantly. Burnout or reports of burnout go up significantly. Layoff worry. Also rises significantly.”

“When it comes to significant burnout, burnout, that's higher than moderate. We've gone up from 44.7% in 2025 to 54.7% in 2026. So burnout is surging. More than half of our sample are feeling significantly burnt out at this point.”

“Optimism around the future of our roles and our careers is falling from 54.8% in 2025 To 48.7% in 2026.”

“As we ship faster than ever, as we move from shipping, you know, a couple of PRs a day to 30 PRs a day, or just doing so much more in some ways that might be fun, but we are burning out more than we did before. And we're not working any less hard clearly, righ…”

“Various tools that are available to us these days enable you to bring out those sides of your personality and those professional aspirations. And that's something that people are really enjoying. We're sort of escaping our classic swim lanes and a certain perc…”

“72% of our sample are worried to a certain extent about being laid off and 41.2% are at least moderately worried about Being laid off.”

“There aren't any traditional roles anymore. We're just all builders these days, whether that's an official thing within a company or not.”

“Losing my job to AI is actually second to last on that list. And instead, what we saw rise up to the top is the expectation to do more for the same Pay.”

“One thing we saw people who feel amplified and energized reporting is that they actually went deep on specific tasks and specific jobs to be done rather than trying to be the generalist who does everything. I think it's the people who try to be Or lean too muc…”

“Your manager clearly matters more than pretty much anything else when it comes to how you feel about work, protect that relationship, invest in that relationship, build up good communication lines with your manager, learn to manage up better.”

“If you were to leave Joko tomorrow and you would not have the skills On how to build a FAI, then your skillset will be obsolete.”

“I don't think 95% of tech workers want to be in a puzzle-solving world.”

“Do I think they're going to start companies? No, I don't.”

“I think a 175,000 tech workers have put their stuff into this spreadsheet. It's like it's broken because it has too many rows now.”

“It's not irrational that some individuals decide to take, you know, one to two, maybe three years of equity at a few different companies to sort of build their own equity portfolio over time.”