Tech workers discover meaninglessness, blame AI instead of the EBITDA slides

Aaron Horwath argues that tech's current malaise is existential, not just economic. Knowledge workers who built identities around 'workism' are confronting the possibility that much of what they do is pointless — and AI is accelerating that reckoning by threatening to automate the very cognitive labor they were told was the future. The piece traces a shift from vocation to 'bullshit jobs' and asks what happens to society when an entire professional class loses faith overnight. It's equal parts cultural critique and warning: the people best insulated from disruption are also the most demoralized.