Over 126,000 tech jobs didn’t quietly “transition” in 2025. They were cut.
Data from layoffs.fyi and Crunchbase shows the pattern.
It was a value audit.
Companies and clients didn’t ask, “Who works hard?” They asked, “Who keeps the lights on?” Downtime and retraining is exceedingly costly. Be the lesser cost.
The survivors and flourishers are those who understand how everything breaks. They can trace task flows forward and backward without opening a diagram.
That’s systems thinking, and it’s wildly under-taught.
Skills that stop at “my service works,” are replaceable. Understanding of why the system works is not.
2025 didn’t kill tech jobs. It killed roles that couldn’t justify themselves.
Every day I 'thank-back' about the intense studies I've always loved doing. Funny the 'fear of AI' yet all it can do is rehash what it has ingested...captured human knowledge behind a prompt. That sort of power, wieldable by anyone solving problems, is unprecedented and has only flung open doors.
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