{"id":17518,"date":"2026-10-29T13:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17518"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:54:34","slug":"more-lives-of-laid-off-tech-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17518","title":{"rendered":"More lives of laid off tech workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jae Park was laid off after 18 years at a leading tech firm &#8211; ironically after leading the internal AI taskforce. He&#8217;s trying to make a crowdsourced app in a last desperate attempt to get income going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His story is becoming all too common in high tech as wave after wave of layoffs take jobs away, and AI reduces the need for big teams down to just 2-3 developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s worth seeing how real lives are being affected by this massive industry shift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K6qhp0SsEcM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jae Park was laid off after 18 years at a leading tech firm &#8211; ironically after leading the internal AI taskforce. He&#8217;s trying to make a crowdsourced app in a last desperate attempt to get income going. His story is becoming all too common in high tech as wave after wave of layoffs take jobs away, and AI reduces the need for big teams down to just 2-3 developers. It&#8217;s worth seeing how real lives are being affected by this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17518\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4yy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17519,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions\/17519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}