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I want to leave tech: what do I do?

Let’s say you’re working in tech and you have a technical role: you’re a programmer, a graphic or UI/UX designer, a sysadmin, maybe even ...

You might want to leave because of the individualistic culture that still haunts the industry, or you’re simply tired of playing along with the collective delusion that so-called “AI” can replace workers, make decisions, or create something new. One concrete project I worked on involved generating thousands of questions from templates to be submitted to Bing Copilot in order to investigate how many mistakes it made about electoral information during the Swiss Elections in 2023. Our resident hacker with a black hoodie typing really fast on his green-on-black console, before joining us, had a job in IT security and reused his skills to intercept the traffic from different apps and build a toolkit to enable workers to do the same.

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