Hiring engineers in SF is hard: 'all the good ones are depressed because Fable took their identity'
zack_overflow · x · 2026-11-11
Developer zackoverflow jokes that hiring engineers in San Francisco right now is very hard — "all the good ones are very depressed because Fable took their identity." A tongue-in-cheek reference to the recent Fable demo that left engineers questioning their own worth, capturing the collective identity crisis sweeping the developer community as AI coding capabilities keep leveling up.
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