Find Your People
400+ engineers already in the newsletter. Hundreds more in online communities and in-person meetups. This is a real problem, and there's a real community dealing with it โ honestly.
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A free email course for engineers who've started to notice something off โ in their work, in their confidence, in the way they feel about their job. One honest email per day for 5 days.
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Find Your People Online
Not every community is right for every engineer. These are the ones where real conversations happen.
r/ExperiencedDevs
The community where senior engineers talk honestly about craft, career, and what it's actually like to work in tech right now. Quality signal: high. Noise: low. Best for engineers with 5+ years feeling the AI pressure acutely.
Join r/ExperiencedDevs โr/cscareerquestions
620,000 members, daily threads on burnout, career transitions, and the existential questions that come up when the job stops feeling like what you signed up for. Good for early-career engineers who feel like something is wrong but can't name it.
Join r/cscareerquestions โr/BurnOut
Dedicated to burnout recovery, including the specific flavor of burnout that comes from the AI era. Smaller, more intimate. Good for finding people who understand exactly what you're going through.
Join r/BurnOut โHacker News
The comments section of the internet โ and occasionally genuinely insightful. Search for "AI fatigue" or "skill atrophy" threads. Best for finding the intellectual dimension of the problem and connecting with thoughtful practitioners.
Browse Hacker News โLobste.rs
Smaller, more technical community for developers. Signal-to-noise ratio is exceptionally high. Good for engineers who want substantive technical discussion without the engagement-bait content.
Browse Lobste.rs โThese communities aren't moderated by us โ they're places where engineers already gather. We're just pointing you toward the ones where your experience is understood.
Find Your People In Real Life
Nothing replaces being in a room with people who get it. Here's where that actually happens.
Meetup.com Search
Search "software engineer" or "developer wellness" meetups in your city. Many cities have slow-coding evenings, tech wellness circles, and engineering support groups that don't require you to explain what AI fatigue is.
Find meetups near you โUnconference Events
Single-day, participant-driven events on craft, sustainable engineering, and wellness. Not corporate conferences โ smaller, more honest gatherings where you can actually say what you actually think.
Find unconferences โSlow Coding Clubs
A growing movement of informal groups where engineers gather to code without AI tools, share what they've built, and talk honestly about craft. No agenda except actually building things.
Find slow coding groups โReal Engineers, Real Stories
You're not imagining it. Other engineers have felt exactly what you're feeling. Some of them wrote it down.
"I thought I was just tired. But I realized I'd gone weeks without writing a single function from scratch. Everything came through AI. I couldn't remember the last time I actually solved a hard problem myself. That's when I knew something was actually wrong."
โ Senior IC, 8 years experience, asked to remain anonymous