Getting fired when you’re actually good at your job is a specific kind of insult. It’s the realization that you’ve been downgraded from "essential talent" to an "expendable luxury" on a spreadsheet.

We’re currently living through a weird contradiction: we use tools like ChatGPT and Claude to supercharge our output, effectively polishing the very tech that might eventually make us redundant. It feels less like a "technological revolution" and more like we’re being asked to build the gallows we’re standing on. This isn't just about job security; it's an identity crisis. If a prompt can do the heavy lifting in Figma, what exactly are we bringing to the table? I’m looking at this psychological trap—where we’ve become so dependent on our potential replacement that it’s starting to feel like a career-wide case of Stockholm Syndrome.

The Reality Check:

1. The "Luxury" Trap: Why being a high-performer doesn’t protect you when corporate restructuring decides automation is "good enough."
2. The Dependency Loop: The absurdity of using AI to stay competitive while knowing that same efficiency devalues your manual craft.
3. UX Design’s Mid-life Crisis: How the shift from "designing for humans" to "prompting for outputs" is gutting the traditional UX role.
4. Identity vs. Utility: Sorting out who you are professionally when your "unique" skills are now a feature in a $20/month subscription.

References:

1. Contact: cmonkxxx@gmail.com
2. Tech involved: ChatGPT, Figma, Claude

Hey, welcome back.

Thank you for listening.

I hope you're looking forward to this episode.

I've been kind of dreading it because today, today I'll be talking about personal topics once again.

Yet I promise I will keep it down to the technology topic category.

Now that's the thing.

Technology is so present in our life, it's really hard to escape it.

And when I mean technology, I of course mean electronics, because technology really means a lot more than our smartphones and Internet computers.

There's a nice book about it by Chris Ryan, Civilized to Death.

I recommend it.

Anyway, it's not what I want to talk about.

I'm really avoiding this topic.

But you, you've read the title of this episode, so you should really know what's coming.

I really wanted to make the title specific, very accurate, and it's not clickbait.

I really want this episode to be discovered by people who fear to be fired because of AI.

And I also want people who got fired to find this episode because I think it can be really confusing.

I've been fired a few times, never for what I did or what I haven't done, meaning I haven't been fired because I was lazy or I've been doing bad job.

I've been fired, I think three times now, including this one, because the company was going through changes through major shift that required that the team will shrink into absolute minimum.

And whenever they say that, whenever employers say that, there's no way of not taking this personally, don't you think, like, if they say they need absolutely the most important people, it means you are not important.

It means they can do whatever they need to do without you.

So what does it mean?

What does it all mean?

Was I always just unnecessary luxury or was my work not meaningful?

I think there is no way of not asking yourself those questions.

Now.

I'm speaking about my specific circumstances, but I'm hoping to make this episode relatable.

I hope that no matter what happened to you with your job, Well, first of all, I hope that you found a way out from this situation.

Because if you know that you got fired because Company replaced you with AI, it's just what I'm trying to say is those circumstances are a lot more difficult to comprehend than I feel like any other type of downsizing that happened before.

Like we notice we, I assume to a larger or smaller extent, we read and watch and listen to the news and there's a lot of contradicting information.

And when it comes to AI, I feel like we're experiencing something very Unique.

What we are dealing with here in this case is, I would say, a borderline Stockholm syndrome, because we use AI every day now, which is such a weird thing to admit.

I feel like it's really hard to stay away from it.

It's really hard to resist.

It's just so useful and we are so forgiving because AI makes so many mistakes and we cannot really rely on it.

We know that it's just a machine, but we can open to it with our emotions.

If we really need emotional support, we ask AI.

We ask AI.

We ask the computer this expression.

I mean, it's being used left and right.

I was hoping that we'll retire this statement.

I ask AI.

We have this weird sense of, I would say superiority.

Like we need to ask it.

We don't tell it.

We don't request from AI.

We ask.

And I think what it says is, it's just AI lands in our reality and it covers very specific void, void that was empty for a very long time.

So we're using AI and we are glad that it exists.

We are more or less up to date with AI.

Announcements, developments.

There's so many news, so many AI releases every day, every week, every month.

At this point, it's really hard to be up to date.

I think it's really hard to know exactly if the tool you're using is the best.

And I feel like it's really hard to have loyalty to a particular tool.

Although I feel like ChatGPT, it's still a staple, it's still a household name.

Such a bad name.

ChatGPT.

Well, okay, so on one hand, we use this every day and we like it, we're dependent on it.

We're becoming more dependent every day.

On the other hand, it's a source of fear.

We fear for our future, we fear of our job security, and we know that it's imminent.

We see how things are improving and then we hear the news, we read the news and there's this reframing that happens where AI is just a tool.

It's just a tool to make our work more interesting, more meaningful, to improve efficiency.

AI will not replace us.

Guess what?

This is what my boss said to us, to our team, a few months ago, and he said it jokingly.

He said, oh, don't worry, we don't do it to replace you with AI.

I don't think anyone believed him.

I think we see writing on the wall very clearly.

World will be very different in a year, in a decade, because AI is becoming more and more capable.

So this Stockholm syndrome, AI, Stockholm Syndrome.

I feel like it's helping us on one level of our life, and it brings us fear and a sense of danger in the other.

I feel like it causes us to be afraid of our survival in a way.

It makes us kind of limited with the way how we communicate or definitely influences the way how we communicate.

And what I said earlier, the.

This weird behavior that we have that we really want to trust AI, we really want to share with it our secrets.

I don't mean necessarily, you know, we.

I mean, people use it as a mental support, right?

Like, let's not deny it.

But people are also not afraid to give it all the secrets.

And over time, they just feed more and more information to AI and just there is so little of questioning what's our relationship with AI, But I really feel like it's a relationship with both sides, with two faces.

It's a villain that we cannot live without.

It's a oppressor that gives us joy, that helps.

Are we getting enslaved by it?

Is it limiting us that we cannot really do our work?

I mean, when I say we do our work, it's usually, hopefully for most people or for some people, it's a way to express yourself, right?

Like, if you're lucky, if you do what you love, you're expressing yourself through your occupation.

And here's this friend of yours, this assistant, this companion AI friend that's.

And even the same AI model it comes to take your job.

I'm laughing, but I just feel like it's grotesque.

It's so bizarre.

And I feel like we are still quite early in this transition.

Whenever I research resources about that, I see one group of people reassuring that, no, no, this is just transition.

This is just we need to adapt.

We need to adapt to AI, we need to learn those skills, and then we'll be on the cutting edge of the industry.

Well, there's more than one side, more than one perspective, and I deeply think that no one really knows what they're talking about unless you actually are affected by downsizing, caused by AI or triggered by AI.

So I definitely have this Stockholm syndrome.

And I came to very particular conclusions what to do with my career or about my career.

But I'll tell you later.

I actually made bullet points for this episode because it's just so hard to follow some kind of a structure.

I feel like this episode could go on in so many directions.

I really don't want to miss any of the points I've set myself to share with you.

And of course, depending where you are in the world, you will be affected differently by this.

I don't know if this is really something that affects us yet in Europe, but I'm seeing that in US there's this term called AI washing, which is basically excuse for downsizing, where CEOs business owners claim that they use AI to optimize, to restructurize their business.

But in fact they need to downsize because economy is not so great.

Or maybe it's their own thought, their management style is bringing company down and maybe, maybe they're reaching for AI tools as well and maybe one thing goes with another.

But look, we still don't know what's going on, but it's kind of obvious to me.

It's kind of obvious.

Having an employee in a company is expensive.

It's ultimately your biggest expense.

Paying salaries to people, keeping them on payroll when they are sick, when they go on parental leave, dealing with them, with their moods, with the fact that they might be not motivated.

I think employee is just a very volatile, inefficient entity that gets to be productive only for a fraction of time, like truly productive.

So getting rid of them in light of company's bad performance is, is a no brainer.

You need to get rid of people to save money.

And then of course you look for AI to, you know, to patch that hole.

So yeah, there's AI washing and then there is basically directly AI replacing employees because it's just cheaper, it does equally good job.

And we see this with coding, we see this with coding where just a few months ago developers would look down at code written by AI.

It would be messy, it would be frustrating, you would try to develop something and then as you keep on going through the AI development, AI is actually breaking the code and it's really hard to control.

Well, all that I'm seeing now and what I'm hearing is we actually get to use AI for coding very efficiently and it's a lot better than people.

So it's kind of no brainer that we would use AI for coding.

You know, I have this story I want to share with you.

About nine years ago, maybe 10, when I was starting my chapter of life in Berlin, I found employment in a startup.

By the way, I had no idea what startup was back then.

I just got hired to a small company.

Well, when you work in a startup, you are in a small team and you get to know people from different departments very easily.

And I got to talk to them in a very informal way and I was really fascinated by looking at Developers at work, I knew what they were doing.

I was aware of that, but I could never see them actually work side by side.

I was baffled by idea that they.

They're basically writing this code, which is, it seemed to me always, like, purposely complicated.

And I was trying to understand why is it so structured?

Why is it so hard to comprehend on a human language level?

So I asked this guy, how long until we will get to write code in just plain English?

Why can we not just establish a different form of communication where we just use plain words?

Why do we play with those syntaxes and label formulas and variables and all those kind of synthetic terms?

Look, I could see that what they're doing is fascinating and beautiful in many ways, but I was questioning, why is it so artificial and complicated almost on purpose?

He told me, it will never be possible to just, you know, tell computer what to do.

I remember that very well because I was really disappointed.

I really thought that he would say something like, yeah, yeah, there's new language being developed, or you can actually, but it's whatever, very, very hard, very, like, prone for bugs, whatever.

He told me, we will never get to that point.

And at that point I thought to myself, okay, then, I will never be a developer.

Because I, you see, whenever I was trying to learn code, I was doing quite well.

I think I was learning CSS and PHP and I was doing quite good progress.

But the problem was I was quickly forgetting what I've learned.

Unless I was doing it on constant basis, I just couldn't retain the knowledge, understanding of code.

And the reason for that was it's just so abstract, it's so synthetic.

And look, I still don't know what I'm talking about here.

I'm just sharing with you my personal experience.

And from what I've observed is that, yeah, you can make mistakes and software you use for writing code will help you out.

There are some measures to help you with syntaxes and, you know, you can find errors easily, typos.

Anyway, look where we are now.

We can actually talk to the computer and it gives us code that's kind of better than code that is written by AI, by human.

I think there are still some issues with optimization of the code.

It's maybe a little bit bloated, but this thing exists today.

Developers today, they actually don't touch the code.

They're inspecting the code.

They're instructing AI to optimize code in some ways.

But we are removing ourselves from this bottleneck, which is need to understand the code, learn the code before you can use it.

So this is again where the Stockholm syndrome comes in for me, because I now, finally, after those nine years, I can code.

I can code in a way that I always wanted to.

Even today, I've made a tool that I can use to produce this podcast.

And it's so fascinating.

I made an application today.

Well, it took me a couple of days.

I've been working on it a few weeks ago, but I decided to finish it today.

Let me tell you about it, because I think this is where the future is.

We won't be using applications that somebody made for us, applications that are very generic.

You know, there's just one app that you need to learn how to use, and you may have other wishes, how things would work around it, but that's not what it is.

The app is generic.

You can customize it in a way where you can change it to dark mode, you can change your profile picture, whatever, but you cannot really change anything about what this app does.

Well, I made an app today, and we can probably say I vibe coded the app today to produce this podcast.

If you're not into this, I welcome you to use chapters to skip to the next topic.

But personally, I'm really fascinated by what this app can do.

So I'm recording audio file such as this one, and once I'm done, I will upload this audio file into the interface.

It's a web page that's actually not on the Internet.

It's a web page that's sort of hosted on my hard drive.

I'm uploading this file and I'm getting transcript.

I'm getting all different kinds of text assets like descriptions, titles, chapter marks, many, many forms of descriptions for social media, which I don't use.

But hey, I get that generated as well.

I even get a kind of objective score that tells me if my podcast episode is coherent, if it's consistent with what the main podcast is about.

You know, if this episode is standing out in some way.

I get all those kinds of statistics that every AI gives me as a result of deep analysis, and all I need to do is just look at it, choose one of the titles, maybe customize things.

Customize things a little bit, and press button to upload and publish.

Now, I could do the same thing on the website of my podcast hosting provider.

I would need to upload the file.

I could either write those descriptions and titles or I could get them generated, but for this, I'll need to pay extra.

Look, what I've made is free.

It's completely free, at least at the scale that I'm doing this at, you know, if I'm publishing an episode per week, it basically cost me nothing.

So I'm able basically to do something I was always dreaming about.

I'm recording, and then it takes me just two minutes to publish it.

And there's a lot more that will be possible.

I will be able to trigger different scripts, to trigger different actions.

I said, I don't care about social media, but, you know, I will be able to trigger all those promotional campaigns to promote my podcast.

Now, I don't know if I want to do that, but, you know, I'd be able to generate video out of clips and promote them on Instagram or X, whatever.

The point is, I had fun creating this app.

I actually get.

I got really motivated to do this.

I got this app created, and I said to myself, this is my private podcast studio.

This is my podcast producer.

Basically, just because I ask AI to write those descriptions, it doesn't mean that I have no involvement.

I will actually customize the language that will be used for descriptions.

It will be in the near future, I will make it very personalized.

Right now it's quite generic, but, you know, AI will basically channel my style of expression and it will be very seamless.

Right now, I'm just happy with what I've got, and there's still a lot of way to grow for this application.

I've got couple of other tools that I use for different purposes, you know, to like, process documents, to research things, and they all save me time.

They're all effectively free and they're fun to make.

And I already have this instinct that if I.

If I need some kind of an app or a website, if I need anything online, like I want to download a YouTube video, I just.

I just make a tool for this and it downloads it as a video or as a MP3 file.

You see, I'm catching myself on realization that I don't love this.

I don't even like it, but I just take it as a new norm.

I take it as a baseline with my computing needs.

I feel like finally, thanks to AI, everything will be simple.

And we've got those new AI agents that will basically, they will end up operating our computers for us.

So maybe that was the end game, just to have your AI assistant to do your computing needs.

And I don't know what else is there to do now when social media is basically collapsing and imploding.

I guess computers may end up being just, you know, like equivalent of a dishwasher.

I don't know.

I mean, future is so uncertain.

Future is so uncertain.

And of course, I'm very frequently questioning what's the future of content creation?

What's the future of this podcast?

The people that I see that are constantly tuning in, are these actually people?

Are these bots?

Who knows?

Maybe nobody dead.

Internet theory that says that all those entities that we see, all those avatars, are basically bots.

How many of us humans are among them?

I think that Internet theory started as something else, but I think it got adapted to AI just like everything else starts to be adapted to AI.

Yeah, I. I hear myself.

Maybe I sound like a big fun boy, like a child that's excited about AI, but I'm equally excited and frustrated, believe me.

Now, I would like to tell you more about what I've been doing professionally.

And I want to tell you how I affected my line of work.

My only career in my life was in visual design.

Okay.

I started as a graphic designer.

I thought, this will be the most exciting occupation, the most exciting career.

I'll get to do beautiful things.

And I feel like as I was getting into this industry, digitization was already transforming it.

There you go, into computer graphics.

So from more like artistic side of graphic design, it became a lot more pragmatic.

You know, it was about printing brochures and making infographics and, you know, doing things for the Internet, which of course quickly became UI design, creating websites, creating interfaces.

And then once we realized that, okay, we've got this vibrant Internet, it doesn't really work that well, it's really awkward to use.

We need something different.

We need UX design.

And that's where really my career bloomed, if ever it bloomed around UX design, user experience design.

And when I got into this industry, I realized that I was born to do it.

Okay.

It was a new field that no one really knew about.

I had to.

After claiming this title, introducing myself, I had to every single time explain what UX design is.

And people were always confused.

They just couldn't understand that, you know, your app, your web app, it just needs to look nice in order to be usable.

Well, UX was a true roller coaster.

It became bigger and bigger every year.

The demand was skyrocketing until, I think two or three years ago.

I feel like it peaked.

There was a lot of courses, a lot of ways to learn ux.

And of course, UX became very in demand, extremely in demand.

And it was fashionable, it was very hip.

And, you know, when you're a UX designer, you get to express Your opinions based on research.

So you study your audience and then you end up being quite often the only person in the company that knows what users want.

You might be surrounded by, you know, stakeholders and developers and they all are sort of looking inwards, they're looking at the code, they're looking at the business, business values.

But you are the only one in the team that says, hey, hey, hey.

That's not what users want.

Users have entirely different needs than you guys.

So I've been in this situation every single time with every single client, every single company.

And it was fun.

It was so much fun.

Until.

Yeah, because it's never still ux, you know, it's.

It became more like a product management, project management.

And then very quickly it evolved to something a bit bigger called product design, which includes visual and usability, user centric logic.

And there is this peculiar process that you follow to create interface that actually works well.

So I would say UX at that point was becoming more and more complex.

Fascinating.

And it really seemed like it's becoming such a big field that it's definitely here to stay today.

I don't know, I'm not so sure anymore.

At that point I feel like I started to do mentoring of UX design.

I grew with this field since very beginning and with no formal qualifications, I was more than ready to teach others.

And I had this, I always headed this intuition where I always knew where to look, what to question.

I guess it's my overthinking nature.

I was always questioning design, which is in place, and I always wanted to learn what's, what's the better way.

Is this what users want?

It was, it was so much fun.

And then there was this maybe steep learning curve because you had to learn software.

You know, it all started with designing wireframes and prototypes in Photoshop, which was not made for that, but, but it was sort of the only tool available at the time.

Then I think designers went to Illustrator, which was a little bit more comfortable.

And then there was this explosion of UX design tools.

I don't know how many of them still exist, but it was Sketch and of course Figma.

Figma is the king right now.

I wonder for how long.

But these are incredible tools and they give you a lot of flexibility to create basically simulation representation of what this digital experience would be like.

Now these used to be simulations, but right now with AI, you can actually create an actual thing.

You start with a little draft, you add more and more details and then you send it to Claude or another piece of software.

Or AI model and you get to have a very, very capable prototype, if not the end product.

That's how I made my website.

I.

After losing my job last Friday, I, I went back to my WordPress site and I was, you know, trying to create something simple, something just to have it with me next week when I start looking for jobs.

I don't know if I will look for jobs immediately, but I kind of had this impulse, okay, I need to do my portfolio.

And I was struggling.

I was not struggling, but I was overwhelmed by how tedious this was, how time consuming.

I knew what I wanted to make, but the slowness of the process was just so exhaustive, so exhausting and so demotivating.

At some point I shifted my attention to different tools.

I created my prototype in figma and then just interacted with AI and I made this really compelling website in one evening.

But I worked through the night, actually, I couldn't stop.

But which is completely separate issue, completely separate topic.

Vibe coding can be so involving.

It's such a satisfying process because you again, you talk to the computer and it, it creates for you.

Yeah, I feel like vibe coding can have those drug like qualities.

And look, I'm not really getting into, you know, generation of video clips or images because that's whole other section of AI creation.

Isn't it funny that we call it generation and not creation?

We try to create distinction, we create.

But AI generates.

I'm not so sure anymore.

I mean, yeah, we know that AI uses information of, you know, what's there and it just kind of combines things.

I feel like this is exactly what we do also, but we just call it creation.

Yeah, I feel like there's a lot that we'll need to reflect on in the future where I need to really question what creativity is, what's our purpose and what's worth doing.

I feel like, you know, I have a lot of projects that I started in my life and I, I like to go back to them.

I, I'm working with 3D graphics and I'm working this virtual environment that I, I adore working on this project.

It's so satisfying.

But the whole process that I'm going through is just a little bit like writing software.

It's just what I've been talking about earlier.

I need to learn this application called Unreal Engine and then I need to solve all of those problems apart from know I need to stay being creative and I need to come up with something interesting for this 3D environment.

But I kind of know that this will be A lot easier with AI.

Just like exactly what happened with my web page.

And exactly the same thing that happens with vibe coding.

Yeah, like all those tools are going through such a big transformations and of course we're talking about software and you know, it's just almost like contained, self contained in a software world.

But we know that there are those big leaps in robotics as well, which we don't focus on this right now very much.

We can look at those clips and those new announcements that, oh, you can get this humanoid robot and it's a lot cheaper than ever before.

And look at those robots, they're fighting kung fu.

And don't get me started, they already move better than humans ever would.

And you know, some of those new generations of robots that they make, their limbs, those limbs bend differently, which is so bizarre to look at because this humanoid robot, it looks like human, but it's kind of clear that it's an upgraded version of what our build should be like.

You know, we've got our elbows, they bend in one way, but we see that this humanoid robot, it can bend its elbows both ways and that's actually so much better.

I feel like it's a little bit like creating software by typing weird expressions instead of writing in computer language.

We use those.

We are seeing how imperfect we are and we're being reminded how limited we are.

So, yeah, we are not really that concerned about robotics, but I really feel like this is, this concern is also coming.

And even those physical occupations, those ph.

Physical jobs will be under threat in the future.

I feel like, you know, there'll be robot carpenter creating amazing furniture a lot cheaper and faster than human wood.

And yeah, you can still buy this almost perfect artisan human made chair.

It'll be a lot more expensive and maybe you will want to buy it because you want to make a statement or maybe you want to support this artist.

But I really wonder what kind of self image we're gonna have.

And I feel like as a society, we always go for convenience and we always go for cheap whatever is cheaper.

I mean, look at the world around us.

We just, we try to optimize everything.

We try to keep all the costs down.

We, we care about quality mostly when it's a luxury.

We don't consider good quality as a kind of like a baseline.

We always look at good quality as something above baseline, as something to aspire, as something that we need to pay more for.

But what we typically get is just something that's relatively good, something that's good enough.

Yeah, we pay a Little bit cheaper and it's good enough.

Right.

So this brings me to a conclusion about what I've been meaning to tell you about my job.

Like right now you can just tell AI what kind of interface and experience you expect and it just completely bypasses me.

It can make those decisions.

Now what I find really interesting is that we untrained, I can look at this UX design created by AI and untrained eye will say that, yeah, it's good enough.

It's good.

It's was just created just now, it's free, I can use it, I don't need a designer.

It's good enough.

Now I feel like personally, and that's a thought of hope, a seed of hope, I feel like we will be drowned, overwhelmed with mediocrity and a lot of products, digital at first, that will be sold as good enough, but will quickly realize that good enough is not, is not really that good.

And getting something good or perfect will be something that will aspire to.

Because, you know, I've made my app today to produce this podcast and it's good, I acknowledge its limitations.

But hey, I made it, it's free, it's good enough.

Apart from it being fun, like, you know, buying some junk on Temu, right?

It's kind of fun.

Everything's cheap, everything is kind of easy.

I feel like we will miss quality ultimately.

And I, when I said I created a website, I created a business proposition and I'm addressing it to founders, CEOs who sort of restructured their businesses around AI and they created those digital products that are amazing, but they're so messy that the whole thing that they created just implodes.

So I want to be there as sort of a design rescue to bring humanity into what AI creates.

And I feel like I'm a little bit ahead of the time because I'm foreseeing the problem that's not here today, and I might be very mistaken because maybe AI will get to that point of awareness where you will actually know a lot better than me, you know, how certain designs should be executed.

And I will know ultimately at some point in, you know, 1, 5, 10 years, it will know more what we want and then we know what we want.

So look, there is a lot of uncertainty and we need to navigate around it, around those obstacles.

We need to, we need to stay afloat.

What can I tell you?

We need to stay afloat and we need to look for our ways.

Every industry is changing all the time.

Like I said.

Take my, for example, there were no even Specific tools to do it.

Scope of my duties was always very different and it's changing all the time.

We all can agree that this is different, this is just a lot more radical, but nothing is still like everything is changing.

Let's just stay hopeful that this is not end of the road but just really steep curve.

I don't think there's anything to say today.

I think it's.

This is the longest episode I've made, but I feel like there's really a lot on my mind and if you're still listening, I would like to sincerely thank you for that and I would love you to write me an email and share your thoughts.

Tell me what you think about all of this.

Did it affect you?

Do you have different perspective?

Do you agree or do you disagree?

Tell me what you have to say.

I'd love to read your email.

I would love to invite you to the show if you would like to have a open chat about it.

And maybe you would like to send me an audio where you share with me and listeners here how AI affected you negatively and how do you see the future.

Email is in the podcast description, but I will say it once again.

It's SimonKXXXmail.com again it's SimonKXXXmail.com thanks once again.

Thanks you.

Thank you once again.

I feel like recording podcasts like this is something I believe the most right now.

Yeah, we can generate convincing audio.

Yeah, we can have completely AI generated podcast and episode and I don't know if anyone's listening to this.

This type of content is definitely floating the zone.

But from what I've seen so far, this is what we call AI slop.

And while it fascinates us, it doesn't really compare to human generated content.

And maybe this proves to us that yeah, we'll be always buying or we'll always appreciate man made stuff.

And maybe that's what we need.

We need artisan code.

You know, we need to have this little badge on the website on the app that says man made.

No AI was used to create this application to write the software Artisan Man Made.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Like I said, I feel like convenience always wins and we, we just go together as a society and society doesn't really think about individuals but it kind of just focuses on, on the mass and the humanity.

Even though I, I feel like we are self destructive as well.

Maybe deep inside we hope that governments and powers that be will essentially they will take care of us, they will provide solutions and they will give us some kind of a safety net.

They will give us some kind of a protection.

I don't know.

It will be good.

I'm starting my unemployment next week and I'm both excited because I will finally rest.

I'll finally focus on what I really love doing.

But also, yeah, I'm using support.

I have some savings to get me by.

But hey, who is eager to spend savings?

Who's eager to open the financial safety net and just eat it?

You know, spend it all on food and rent.

How exciting is that?

Yeah, I. I hope we'll be taken care of.

Maybe AI will think of us.

Maybe we'll remember that we created it.

Or have we?

I don't know.

Look, I will end it here.

Thank you for listening again.

Write me an email.

I would greatly appreciate that.

And I will speak to you very soon because I feel like I will increase frequency of this show.

It gives me a lot of fun, a lot of joy and I hope it connects with you, it resonates with you.

Speak to you soon.

Take care, stay strong and hopefully.