By Edo Segal
The feeling nobody in my industry wants to admit to is mourning.
I watched it in Trivandrum. Twenty engineers, brilliant people, sitting with the recognition that a tool costing a hundred dollars a month could perform work they had spent decades learning to do. I described the exhilaration in *You On AI*. I described the terror. What I did not describe, because I did not yet have the language for it, was the third thing in the room. Quieter than the other two. Heavier.
It was grief.
Not for a job. Not for a paycheck. For an identity. For the story each of them had told themselves about why their years of effort mattered, what their mastery meant, who they were when they sat down at
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