I was on the train to the AI Native Conf. Anton was a cell, very sad, with a huge backpack. We said hello and talked a bit. Moscow? yes. for the time being. I said I was going to an AI conference. Anton looked at me strangely: that AI again. I asked what happened. Anton IT, was head of testing in a company that turned personal software into businesses. Their department was full. He left for Moscow, or even more, still undecided. find a new place in life. Here in the other room, the conversation ended, and Anton went to sleep and lay until Moscow. Now I find these stories everywhere. In X I saw a lot of posts from developers under 40 and older. One of them has been unemployed since the summer and writes that he is traveling around the country and deciding whether to continue. Another was reduced after twenty years in the profession. He can't find a job, and the part-time job in programming books is also over: people are now asking for artificial intelligence. Experienced professionals sit without work for six months. We have the same picture: IT batteries have become smaller in terms of heart, and more innovative. Researchers like Anton are particularly difficult. How much of this is due to AI, I can't count. But a train, X and conversations with people tell me the same story. It's too late to call it a trend - a tsunami of cuts. It will continue to grow. Pimenov.ai/blog.