Broken Build: 50 problems Reshaping the software Industries

What You'll Find in This Book- The chapters that follow organize the conversation into ten categories - from AI anxiety and the collapsing entry-level pipeline, to layoffs, broken hiring 4 processes, ageism, the return-to-office fight, burnout, pay inequality, technical debt, and eroding workplace trust. Inside each chapter you'll find five specific, named problems - fifty in total - along with context on why each one is happening, what it looks like in practice, and a "signal from the field" box that reflects the tone of how people are actually talking about it online. This book does not pretend to have fifty tidy solutions. Some of these problems are structural and will take years, policy changes, or entire market cycles to resolve. What it offers instead is clarity: a name for what you might be feeling, evidence that you are not imagining it, and - in the closing chapter - a set of grounded, practical ways to build a career that can flex with an industry that no longer moves in a straight line. 67% Drop in U.S. entry-level software postings, 2023-2024 (Stanford Digital Economy Lab / ADP data) 20% Employment decline for software developers aged 22-25 since late 2022, in AI-exposed roles 400K+ Tech workers laid off across roughly two years of rolling industry cuts One note on tone: much of what follows is candid, and some of it is bleak. That's intentional - sanitizing the conversation would defeat the purpose of documenting it honestly. But bleak isn't the same as hopeless. The final chapter is built specifically to leave you with footing, not just a list of grievances.