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gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:
Alami et al 2026: The Psychological Costs of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Software Engineering https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03456 "…software professionals experience accountability anxiety, craft identity disruption, meaning and satisfaction erosion, cognitive and workload intensification, and uncertainty distress. [They] manage these costs through practices that restore control, mitigate them through protective and identity-preserving adaptations, or absorb them, carrying what neither can resolve."