How did we get to an IT crisis in 2024?
We live in interesting times. We are doomed to live in this era where computers have replaced people, money has become a virtue, and the connection between ourselves is destroyed by the strong feeling of individualism. But no, I won’t be talking about these obvious things, I will talk about another thing happening in the IT sector. I mean the constant layoffs that have started since the COVID crisis and are continuing even today when thousands of people are losing their jobs and are left to help themselves … individually. What makes me constantly think about these layoffs? Let’s say I am very close to such examples where highly skilled people are lost, CEOs we are wondering how to get out of the product rabbit hole and companies have made some awful staffing decisions that are still hidden from everyone’s sight. Recently, I figured out that the layoffs.fyi website stands next to my Github pull requests tabs and I just started searching for the reason: “Why?”.