What podcasts say about Noam Segal
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What Noam Segal has said on podcasts
44 statements · 14 positive · 22 negative · 4 mixed · 4 neutral
AI affects tech workers’ feelings about work more than other job characteristics.
“AI has an outlier level, outsize impact on how people feel about their work”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 7:27
Tech workers are sharply divided between energized and negatively affected responses to AI.
“half of the people in tech are feeling incredible, energized, amplified, excited about the technology and the future of, you know, their role. And the other half feel like the future is unclear. They feel destabilized, they feel diminished”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 7:48
AI has shifted the professional identity of nearly all surveyed tech workers.
“only 3% of people reported that AI hasn't shifted their identity”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 8:54
Half of tech workers feel AI amplifies their abilities.
“50% of people in tech are feeling amplified. They feel like they can do more, they feel like they can do better.”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 9:08
Twenty-seven percent of tech workers feel their roles are being redefined by AI.
“that's 27% of our sample”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 9:55
Fourteen percent of tech workers feel destabilized by AI.
“14% of people feel destabilized”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 10:08
AI’s effect on work sentiment is roughly three times larger than manager and founder-happiness effects.
“this technology, this era that we're in, is having an outlier level, outsized impact on how people are feeling about work, more so than anything else we've seen”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 12:51
More negative AI identity responses correspond to lower optimism and higher burnout and layoff worry.
“as you move from the people who feel amplified to the people who feel diminished, career optimism goes down significantly. Burnout or reports of burnout go up significantly. Layoff worry also rises significantly.”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 13:47
Tech workers generally would not recommend that early-career people enter the industry now.
“people would not recommend junior people, early career people entering into the tech workforce at this moment”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 14:11
Significant burnout among surveyed tech workers rose sharply between 2025 and 2026.
“We've gone up from 44.7% in 2025 to 54.7% in 2026. So burnout is surging.”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 20:35
Tech workers’ optimism about future roles and careers declined from 2025 to 2026.
“optimism around the future of our roles and our careers is falling from 54.8% to in 2025 to 48.7% in 2026”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 20:53
Higher AI-enabled work velocity is contributing to greater burnout.
“as we ship faster than ever, as we move from shipping a couple of PRs a day to 30 PRs a day, or just doing so much more, in some ways that might be fun, but we are burning out more than we did before”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 22:12
AI tools enable workers to express professional abilities outside their formal roles.
“various tools that are available to us these days enable you to bring out those sides of your personality and those professional aspirations”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 23:48
Most surveyed tech workers are at least somewhat worried about layoffs.
“72% of our sample are worried to a certain extent about being laid off”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 25:19
No surveyed tech role category has a positive net-promoter result.
“no one is a promoter of their role in tech right now”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 31:48
Less-senior tech workers are less likely to recommend their roles.
“as you go down in seniority, you're less likely to recommend your role”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 33:38
Building many AI-generated prototypes is likely to increase burnout and should be avoided.
“I would suggest that we're just going to get even more burnt out that way. I would not recommend that approach.”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 39:51
Research and design remain important for expanding product possibilities beyond AI’s current output ceiling.
“research has a very end design has a very important part to play in raising the ceiling of what's possible. Whereas AI has mostly lowered the bar, but it hasn't raised the ceiling.”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 39:58
Tech workers’ expectations for the future are more negative than their current job experiences.
“what people are extrapolating might happen is clearly more negative than their current experiences”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 43:14
Nearly all surveyed tech workers say AI improves their job performance.
“97.2% of people are saying that AI is making them better at their job”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 46:04
AI increases work volume and speed without necessarily improving output quality.
“I can do more faster, but not better”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 47:06
Offloading problem-solving to AI lowers self-efficacy and degrades thinking and judgment.
“every time you offload that to your favorite AI model, you're lowering that baseline and your thinking and your judgment is rotting”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 52:15
The dominant tech-worker fear is increased workload without increased compensation.
“the expectation to do more for the same pay”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 53:55
The pace of tech work and technological change has become unsustainable for workers.
“the pace is becoming unsustainable”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 54:21
Curiosity and excitement are the most commonly reported tech-worker emotions toward AI.
“the top two emotions are positive emotions, curiosity and excitement”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 56:12
AI-enabled work creates relentless pace because workers lack an effective off switch.
“there's no off switch. There's no off switch. And so the tempo is absolutely brutal.”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 58:36
Designers and researchers report the most negative AI-related sentiment among tech functions.
“designers and researchers are the most negative”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 1:01:30
Design and research are especially important in the current AI-driven product era.
“there's never been a more important time for our roles to manifest in the products that we build”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 1:02:48
Current AI technology cannot reliably create exceptional novel creative experiences.
“creating incredible, novel, creative experiences, not something that this technology is quite capable of”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 1:05:02
Founders and employees at smaller companies are the happiest tech workers.
“The happiest people in tech. This is something that did not change between last year's survey and this year's. It's still founders and people who are working in smaller companies.”
Open the episode · How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Listen at 1:06:34
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