Software engineer burnout is the reason your app looked different this morning and nobody on the team can explain why it changed. Greg Fish of Cyberpunk Survival Guide has spent years inside the industry watching companies ship work not because it solves a problem but because it lets someone say they're AI first at the next shareholder meeting.

The programmers know it's pointless. They hate it. And every broken link, every uninvited redesign, every bug that sits unfixed over a long weekend is the downstream result of work created to generate the appearance of progress rather than any of it.

Fish connects it to something older than tech: a near-religious conviction in Western culture that toil justifies existence, now dressed up as hustle culture and rebranded for a generation that was promised it would make them millionaires. It didn't. And now the harder question is what valuable work actually looks like when the easy problems are already solved.

Topics: software engineer burnout, AI first culture, tech productivity, hustle culture, future of work

GUEST: Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com

Originally aired on 2026-06-24

Software engineer burnout is the reason your app looked different this morning and nobody on the team can explain why it changed. Greg Fish of Cyberpunk Survival Guide has spent years inside the industry watching companies ship work not because it solves a problem but because it lets someone say they're AI first at the next shareholder meeting.
The programmers know it's pointless. They hate it. And every broken link, every uninvited redesign, every bug that sits unfixed over a long weekend is the downstream result of work created to generate the appearance of progress rather than any of it.
Fish connects it to something older than tech: a near-religious conviction in Western culture that toil justifies existence, now dressed up as hustle culture and rebranded for a generation that was promised it would make them millionaires. It didn't. And now the harder question is what valuable work actually looks like when the easy problems are already solved.
Topics: software engineer burnout, AI first culture, tech productivity, hustle culture, future of work
GUEST: Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-06-24

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