The “AI Doomsday” Illusion and Our Lost Professional Ethics

Are We Still Doing Our Jobs Properly?

Every morning, we wake up to the same noise.

“AI is going to take our jobs.” 

“Vibe coding is here, developers are doomed.” 

“The tech industry is collapsing.”

But while everyone is busy doomscrolling, we are ignoring a much more tragicomic reality.

Everyone is applying to AI-generated job descriptions, using AI-tailored CVs, only to be filtered and rejected by another AI.

And somewhere in the middle of this absurd loop, real people are reduced to data points, automated rejection emails and “due to the high volume of applications” templates.

Maybe the real crisis is not AI.

Maybe the real crisis is the erosion of professional ethics.

I still remember something an Art Director of mine once wrote in his farewell message before leaving an agency:

“No matter what, if you don’t do your job properly, the person who has to clean up the rubble you leave behind is your coworker. The one you drink coffee and chat with during breaks. Even if you hate the company you work for, please have respect for your profession.”

That sentence stayed with me.

Because I have seen that rubble many times.

Half-baked designs. Unclear handovers. Spaghetti code justified with “it works for now.” Poor decisions passed downstream for someone else to fix later.

The worst part is that the person paying the price is often not the company.

It is your colleague.

The person sitting next to you. The person joining the same meetings. The person sharing the same pressure, deadlines and uncertainty.

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The Bottom Line: Drop the Tool Fetishism

So yes, AI is changing the industry.

But AI is still a tool.

Just like Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, or any other tool we once thought would redefine everything.

The real question is not whether you use AI.

The real question is whether you use it with judgment, responsibility and respect for the people who will inherit your work.

Eventually, this era of noise and absurdity will calm down. The panic will fade, the titles will change, and we will be left with what has always mattered: Doing the actual work.

So maybe the question is not whether AI will take our jobs.

Maybe the better question is: Are we still doing our jobs properly?