Let’s not forget that we are just now recovering from the market corrections of the pandemic. Pandemic level tech industry hiring was insane and many of those companies who later held layoffs were just sending the growth line back to where it should be.

I think pressure to ship is always there. I don’t know if that’s intensifying or not. I can understand where managers and executives think AI = magical work faster juice, but I imagine those expectations will hit their correction point at some time.