The impact for me was I quit and founded a company, got funded. I work with my friends and it's great.

Corpos are very sick right now, friends that stayed behind with +8y xp are very burnt out and annoyed having to deal with barely functional employees for a "peanut butter" raise.

AI has been an excellent excuse for holding back new hires. It might give me a 20% productivity boost, but that doesn't help if my workload increases by 50%.