Version History: The Emerging Mental Health Crisis Among Software Engineers

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DateSummary
26 Mar 202626 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
25 Mar 202625 Mar 2026 – Harness 2026 report: 96% of frequent AI coders work evenings and weekends multiple times per month; MTTR 7.6 hours vs 6.3 for occasional users; NYU professor says managing agents gives you ’less agency’; Spotify engineers have not written code since December.
24 Mar 202624 Mar 2026 – World’s largest employee mental health company CEO names AI anxiety as top workplace concern; MIT Media Lab research finds heavy AI reliance atrophies independent thinking, adding clinical data anchor to cognitive debt thesis.
23 Mar 202623 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
21 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
19 Mar 202619 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
16 Mar 202616 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
15 Mar 202615 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
14 Mar 202614 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
13 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
12 Mar 202612 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
11 Mar 202611 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
10 Mar 202610 Mar 2026 – Researchers coin ‘brain fry’ to describe AI-induced cognitive fatigue; study finds 14% of workers affected, rate highest among high performers.
9 Mar 20269 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
8 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
7 Mar 2026A quieter day – nothing today that shifts the thesis.
6 Mar 2026Anthropic publishes own labour market data – junior hiring slows; “AI fatigue” essay names the assembly line.
5 Mar 2026Alibaba Qwen researcher exodus – the human cost of research vs. monetisation.
4 Mar 2026Quieter day: Greg Knauss on identity dissolution with AI.
3 Mar 2026Ars Technica reporter fired over AI-fabricated quotes – cognitive debt and accountability in a new domain
2 Mar 2026Added December Inflection section.
2 Feb 2026Initial publication

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