--- title: Jobs Are Disappearing Quietly, The Math Keeps Me Awake description: A personal, late-night essay from a veteran tech professional grappling with the quiet disappearance of jobs due to automation and AI. The author reflects on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/jobs-are-disappearing-quietly-the-math-keeps-me-awake-gan82hicx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Jobs Are Disappearing Quietly, The Math Keeps Me Awake | daily.dev og:description: A personal, late-night essay from a veteran tech professional grappling with the quiet disappearance of jobs due to automation and AI. The author reflects on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/jobs-are-disappearing-quietly-the-math-keeps-me-awake-gan82hicx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GaN82hiCX.png og:image:alt: Jobs Are Disappearing Quietly, The Math Keeps Me Awake og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Jobs Are Disappearing Quietly, The Math Keeps Me Awake **[SQL Authority](https://daily.dev/sources/sql-authority)** · 7 min read · 64 upvotes · 38 comments ## Summary A personal, late-night essay from a veteran tech professional grappling with the quiet disappearance of jobs due to automation and AI. The author reflects on the private anxiety of watching familiar roles erode — from bank tellers to junior analysts — and the fear of what comes next. Rather than offering solutions, it shares the emotional reality of living through structural workforce change, with a closing reminder that human worth extends beyond what machines can replicate. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@daniel8000** · 23 upvotes > If the system want me to pay my bills, system have to give me an opportunity to earn money to pay that bills. But unfortunately system is broken, so it doesnt get this rule of thumb. **@agustinbarrientos** · 4 upvotes > We'll have to adapt, as we always do. We don't have any other option. **@alpnsk** · 4 upvotes > I grew up in a poor family and even though I live a stable life now, since my first day working in IT I never took anything for granted. > > I never took for granted technologies, patterns, my knowledge, my salary, my savings… > > And doing so doesn’t mean I live in constant fear and worry, I just try to spend my free time and my money in the best way I can: I never deprive myself of a travel abroad, or of my weekly meal at my favorite restaurant or other things that bring joy to my little life. > > In the AI era, deep knowledge and consciousness are powerful in certain contexts, but I always carry... **@jgzeiss** · 3 upvotes > I assume your statement is meant to convey the paradox that as the system eliminates jobs to reduce it's costs, it also eliminates paying customers/consumers of the products produced by the system. **@andrewma** · 2 upvotes > there are still plenty of jobs though... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Work, After Work: Notes From an Unemployed New Grad Watching the Job Market Break](https://daily.dev/posts/work-after-work-notes-from-an-unemployed-new-grad-watching-the-job-market-break-bqgamxcrl) · Hacker News · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years](https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-know-if-my-job-will-still-exist-in-ten-years-qrfavafmx) · sean goedecke · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Will AI Take Your Job? 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But unfortunately system is broken, so it doesnt get this rule of thumb.","datePublished":"2026-07-27T07:32:28.675Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GaN82hiCX#c-oJNji4m56","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel","url":"https://daily.dev/daniel8000","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--F_RltCZK--/f_auto/v1738746891/avatars/avatar_SOwG1kJqf6HK6TkGmZH45"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":23}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"We’ll have to adapt, as we always do. We don’t have any other option.","datePublished":"2026-07-27T17:24:18.512Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GaN82hiCX#c-qTlnQxA1L","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Agustin Barrientos","url":"https://daily.dev/agustinbarrientos","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--5ayxQnqn--/f_auto/v1788281802/avatars/avatar_wQYYVe5Tbj0NJ7C7qPoa8?_a=BAMAMicg0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I grew up in a poor family and even though I live a stable life now, since my first day working in IT I never took anything for granted.\nI never took for granted technologies, patterns, my knowledge, my salary, my savings…\nAnd doing so doesn’t mean I live in constant fear and worry, I just try to spend my free time and my money in the best way I can: I never deprive myself of a travel abroad, or of my weekly meal at my favorite restaurant or other things that bring joy to my little life.\nIn the AI era, deep knowledge and consciousness are powerful in certain contexts, but I always carry with me my plan B career (having a farm, if you wonder) in case things go wrong, and I know it will be fine, because I would hardly go below the life I had to live during my childhood.\nI am sharing this to remember you that, unless you come from a powerful family, we live in the eye of the storm","datePublished":"2026-07-28T15:24:43.995Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GaN82hiCX#c-vewAtvznS","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"alpnsk","url":"https://daily.dev/alpnsk","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/266740443?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I assume your statement is meant to convey the paradox that as the system eliminates jobs to reduce it’s costs, it also eliminates paying customers/consumers of the products produced by the system.","datePublished":"2026-07-27T16:17:14.032Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GaN82hiCX#c-qEDFsIYqb","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"John Zeiss","url":"https://daily.dev/jgzeiss","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AAcHTtfNOiiByFsWA70OvEx1aeYMXwQy7gBQd7jTw2VesAEY=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"there are still plenty of jobs though…","datePublished":"2026-07-28T13:28:06.490Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GaN82hiCX#c-uAAV0WvgQ","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Andrew M","url":"https://daily.dev/andrewma","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/102819214?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}}]} ```