Going Back to Basics

Today was my last day at Google. I have made a conscious choice of leaving for better. I am looking forward to spending more time with my kids, family and friends. I am looking forward to not yelling at my kiddo when he comes into my office because I am still busy until 7 PM due to some broken shit. Because we no longer have a sensible software engineering process and everything is rushed. I am also looking forward to sleeping through the night without getting paged at 2 AM! Why and for what you ask? Because a job that, I kid you not, literally needed 2 CPUs and 20GB of RAM could not start for some time. It was starved for 2 CPUs, when God knows how many hours of CPU and RAM resources are going into GenAI! I had to get up to get an emergency loan and ensure the job runs fine. And then not be able to go back to sleep until 5-6AM. Furthermore, I am looking forward to thinking for myself and gaining some autonomy, rather than taking product and technical decisions made up by higher-ups and executives (who are probably using AI for those decisions) and feeding them to AI to generate garbage. This has become absolutely meaningless to me very quickly over the past year. I don't want to be just another execution arm for someone else. Trust me, I am not against AI. Heck, I have a masters in AI. I use a lot of GenAI myself, but work has lost all meaning to me. This GenAI stuff and the way it is changing software engineering creative process might be cool and fun to someone without a computer science or software engineering background. It might give them a sugar high, making them think they have superpowers now, but I find absolutely no joy in it. Needless to say, the use of AI where it should not be used is reaching new levels of absurdity. I want to go back to "basics" and think. I invite you to do that as well. I wish that, cheers to a better tomorrow. Better for humans, not AI freaking agents!.

A LinkedIn-style post from a software engineer announcing his departure from Google and criticizing rushed GenAI-driven engineering practices. The joke is the exaggerated contrast between wanting a calmer, human-centered life and describing absurd CPU shortages, AI-generated garbage, and sleepless production emergencies; it is shared as a reaction to AI hype and corporate tech culture. EN: A LinkedIn-style post from a software engineer announcing his departure from Google and criticizing rushed GenAI-driven engineering practices. The joke is the exaggerated contrast between wanting a calmer, human-centered life and describing absurd CPU shortages, AI-generated garbage, and sleepless production emergencies; it is shared as a reaction to AI hype and corporate tech culture.

• @gentoomemes / 20847 2026-05-09