Welcome to the EdinburghJS November Meetup! We'll be meeting on **Tuesday 17th November, 18:30** at the Perk office. It is an uncertain time to be a programmer. The rise of agentic coding is changing the nature of dev work. Coding with agents can be exhilarating, but also addictive and exhausting. There is pressure to produce more, faster, with less regard for quality. With so much in flux, it can feel like our careers and the craft of coding as we know it are under threat. Our talks this month will be about mental health and burnout in the age of AI coding. The event will start with a talk by Miranda Heath about her research on how AI is affecting the mental health of software developers. We will then have a guided chat about how our wellbeing and jobs are being affected by AI, and how we can support each other through these changes. Expect pizza, good conversation and moral support! --- AI Burnout and Brainfry This summer, Syntax ran a survey on AI coding and mental health. I analysed the nearly 1000 comments developers left sharing their views and experiences. Using insights from my training as a psychologist, I highlight some of the biggest and most surprising ways AI is impacting developers psychologically, including: - how the pressure to produce more, faster, is leading developers to burn out - how reviewing verbose AI generated code and running multiple agents in parallel puts developers under excessive cognitive loads, leading to ‘AI brainfry’ - how relying on AI to generate code affects developers' motivation, skill development, and feelings of self-worth and confidence developers' feelings about the changing nature of their craft and profession - how AI creates a feeling of possibility than can make it hard to stop prompting and disconnect from work I'll then consider what we can do to be healthy and happy coding in a world where AI is ubiquitous. --- We will chat about the following topics. Are there any other topics you'd like to see included? Suggest t

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