Is anyone working in AI or adjacent feeling burnout?<p>Some things I’ve experience or heard about from colleagues lately at big companies<p>* The Tech Bro CEO pressure to AI everything<p>* completely discarding roadmaps or actual user features to build a dubious AI thing<p>* death march projects<p>* a complete disregard for team health - despite lip service. Even in orgs that once demonstrated care for these things in the past<p>* Disinterest in existing organizational context. Ignore lessons learned how to ship products<p>* Some Tech Bro Czar of AI appointed that ignore all team norms and completely derails roadmaps for their pet idea<p>* Lack of interest in retention. If people with organizational context leave, it’s almost seen as a good thing<p>* Proliferation of AI yes- men that agree with brilliant founder of head of AI<p>It’s as if suddenly leaders have permission to ignore everything we know about organizational psychology and building longer term cultures to ship an AI toy.