u/Thin_Security_3155

Title says it all. Using AI to chase a 6 figure tech job isn't going to matter when we run out of water and oil reserves before Trump leaves office in 2029. I had a cursor and ChatGTP sub, but then learned we have TWO years before our running water turns to dirt. Not 12, not 10. TWO.

Decided to cancel and delete accounts for both models. No amount of leetcode or vibe coding is going to get us out of this and just because a handful of billionaires want us dead doesn't mean we need to give them our money, or even use AI at all.

At MOST, I'll maybe use Google AI when I want a quick answer on something. Otherwise, I'm done playing this game. They have been scaring us about AI since I was in college in 2015, and it has gone beyond the point of being a job issue, and is now an issue of a functioning society all together. I make a living wage in Software QA and don't need to use AI at that specific company and I'm riding it out until we get to the end times.

If you don't want to be drinking dirt water by the 2028 election, I suggest you stop using it too. But I know half of humanity is stupid and won't listen to me, so I'm preparing for the end times nonetheless.

Coding has been fun fellas. Maybe someday it will come back when we don't have a self destructive government again.

Edit: Someone asked for a source: https://blogs.edf.org/waterfront/2026/03/20/western-us-water-bankruptcy/

I live in New England, so this may not be as much of an issue in our region as it is on the West Coast. It is, however, worth panicking about it like it's the end of time.

I make $31 an hour in a full time Software QA job in NH. I was an average student in CS and went to a regional school. I don't think this is going to get better. At least not in the USA. USA is going the way of the Roman Empire. Forget AI for a second and look at Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. USA is depleting our oil reserves. If the USA had a competent government, they would already be rationing gas like we did in the 1970s. The country I was born in, 1996, fresh out of the Cold War and a booming job market, is gone.

USA losing its oil reserves would make advancing your career less important, and having ammo more important. Not as a threat, but in the sense that society would basically turn into Mad Max.

I make enough to survive because I live an hour away and split a two-bedroom apartment with two friends. Gas has eaten into my current raise. I have weekends off except maybe once a year, so I'm enjoying my current stability. My mom and I are trying to get Canadian Citizenship due to bill C-3 and thought about renting and working in the USA, but honestly, it occurred to me, I may be better off paying taxes to a country's government that is actually functional and trying to step up in a Globalized world, instead of USA, which is stuck in the past of the post-WW2 boom.

Software in the 2010s and very briefly during COVID was literally the last stand of that traditional American dream. From 2012-2021, you get a CS degree, get a job, buy a house, and start a family. It was quite literally the last stand of the traditional American dream from the 1950s-1960s, while every other sector stagnated. Then COVID and later inflation disrupted that order. And now nobody can get a job and is hanging on to their job for dear life.

It's sad because the USA had so much potential, but we blew it. Now the USA is just a mid-country that could be great, while Canada is a decent country trying to step up and become great.

If I get citizenship, I may start looking into options.

Officially boycotting AI

Forget advancing my career, I'm holding my position.