Simon Willison • 2/7/2026

Quoting Tom Dale

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The article shares Tom Dale's observations on a widespread mental health crisis among software engineers, triggered by the shift from scarce to abundant software via AI agents, leading to cognitive overload, compulsive behaviors, and dissociative awe during this technological inflection point.

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