The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham

0:00So we've been chatting about your famous giveaway, your Legos career advice.

0:04This idea of how this advice applies in today's very strange AI world.

0:09The narrative right now is literally like, okay, we hired this new employee.

0:13This new employee is the smartest employee that you have ever met.

0:18I want you to pour every single thing that you know into this employee, and then they're going to take your job in six months.

0:24Like, who the f ⁇ wants to do that?

0:26Here's the big question, Molly.

0:27Are there any Legos you should not give away?

0:29In AI land, I think we got to caveat this.

0:32There are some Legos that shouldn't be given away.

0:35There's just some work that shouldn't be outsourced.

0:37Just a radical departure from your advice over the many years.

0:40You individually are phenomenal at a set of things.

0:43Don't outsource it to these weird robots that, you know, are effectively summer interns.

0:48AI is taking a lot of our Legos, whether we liked it or not.

0:51And we're being encouraged to give our Legos to AI.

0:53You had someone on who talked about like, the job used to be rowing and now it's steering.

0:58And I was like, I feel like there's a lot of people out in the world right now that are like, I don't want to steer.