Comment by frankie_t

My morale is extremely low. But I have different circumstances: I live under war, with my future life perspectives unknown. Software engineering, apart from being enjoyable, provided the sense of security. I felt that I could at least either relocate to some cheap country and work remotely, or attempt to relocate to an expensive country with good jobs.

With AI, the future seems just so much worse for me. I feel that productivity boost will not benefit me in any way (apart from some distant trickle down dream). I expect the outsource, and remote work in general to be impacted negatively the most. Maybe there's going to be some defensive measures to protect domestic specialists, but that wouldn't apply to me anyway unless I relocate (and probably acquire citizenship).

>Is your company hiring more/ have they stopped hiring software engineers

Stopped hiring completely and reduced workforce, but the reasons stated were financial, not AI.

>Is the management team putting more pressure to get more things done

with less workforce, there is naturally more work to do. But I can't say there is a change in pressure, and no one forces AI upon you.