I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline Chad Whitacre announced his retirement from the technology industry, citing that artificial intelligence has drained the remaining motivation from his open-source work. Whitacre, an employee of Sentry, stated he will transition to living offline and wished his colleagues well. I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline By Chad Whitacre ❧ Published on May 28, 2026 tl;dr AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best Disclosure / advertisement: I work for Sentry.