<p>My friends who have spent a lifetime learning how to make stable change on critical systems will be forced to adapt to help stabilize the tools that lost them their jobs.</p><p>Some of them will find a way through, some of them will join the Cobal programmers I have met in other industries throughout the world.</p><p>They have told me they were let go because they were getting old, or didn’t want to change. I wonder if it was a similar hype cycle that I was too new or young to see.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/workersrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>workersrights</span></a></p>