Simon Willison • 2/7/2026

Quoting Tom Dale

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The article shares a quote from Tom Dale about a widespread mental health crisis among software engineers, triggered by the rapid shift from scarce to abundant software and the cognitive overload of living through a major technological inflection point, particularly regarding AI agents.

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