Same company same title, different team.

The team i'm on keeps losing upper managers all the time and keeps having reorgs. It feels very unstable. Plus currently we're working on a bunch of AI stuff that I don't believe in the future of.

Like two weeks ago we lost my manager, and his manager too at the same time plus two line engineers moved on as well so I'm like... OK that's enough for me, time to start looking around.

Our management team keeps reassuring us that the project is something the rest of the company is super focused on and there's no reason to worry but even if that's true, they keep saying they'd like to have us merge what we're doing with another, similar team near us that's doing something military related that I want no part of but I don't want to say that.

So I sent out a bunch of applications and found something else. It doesn't sound super exciting but at least it's not AI and it's not military. And they said I have the job if I want it.

So now I need to figure out how to tell my manager that I'm planning to leave and hand off all my projects to the like... very few people left on our project.

I do feel a little bad. I am (was) leading a few projects that are pretty important to the success of the project, and I was doing pretty well. Plus I kind of enjoyed the work we were doing but I didn't really like what we were doing it for or think it would survive the AI bubble collapse.

I hope I'm good at the new thing too and that it's interesting. And I hope everyone on my current team ends up ok.