Ask HN: Anyone else feels that their job quality has declined severely recently?

I work at one of the bigger companies and Recently I have become completely demotivated by AI advancements, manager behaviour and exec apathy. We are not in a terrible economy yet, but workers are already suffering.

I have kept up with AI advancements, and used cluade code since Day1, even stayed with it when they added limits, I never advocated my company to use it, I always asked the reimbursement from my learning budget, and when asked I always say use opencode with openrouter. And we also have own CLI now. But its impossible to keep up with this whole thing and even if when we do, whats the point? I cant seem to convince anyone that we are useful, we are working harder and yet getting no rewards. Checking our internal promotion stats, the #s are down by margin that makes me cry, and most promotions are in non-SDE fields too. Its seems we are being phased out and execs have a plan. There is something weird going on.

I dont particularly care about _this_ job, but I care about our field. Everywhere managers are asking us to work more and execs are still not happy with anything, They dont seem to understand AI is the reason users dont use our products. They are actively hating on our products but no one seems to care.