The tech industry is thriving. The people who built it are being discarded. Companies are cutting solid workers on the expectation AI will replace them, not because it has. The $100k job didn't vanish, it got hollowed out and handed off to cheaper employees while the people who held it wonder what's next. We've done this before. The space program scattered its talent and spent decades relearning what it already knew. The industry is about to forge ahead on the same path. The

Technology and innovation has had a long storied history of making humanity better. I feel like companies are chasing money at the expense of meaningful innovation. Can we go back to meaningful innovation again, where the end result wasn’t a cost increase for a minor bump in productivity?

A year-end reality check on my 2025 tech predictions. Some hits, some misses, and a few unexpected plot twists along the way.

The customer is always right. Except now, where the customer is a byproduct of companies ever expanding profits.