Porridge caring: Finding joy in a shifting industry - Ep 140

Simon and Judy open with updates from the MoTaverse, including the Leading with AI event, new moments from the community, Women in Testing, and a Software Testing Live session on risk. The main conversation explores the idea of grieving change in tech: the fear, sadness, frustration, and identity shifts that come with AI, shifting roles, and changing workplace cultures.

Community members join to share personal reflections on writing, career breaks, AI taking away the joy of making, feeling unheard at work, and how to keep going when quality advocacy becomes exhausting. Ady closes with a passionate reminder to protect yourself, collect your wins, and "be you" rather than reshaping yourself for companies that may never fully listen.