The Hacker News discussion on plunging tech worker morale [7] is doing something specific: it is treating the layoff wave not as a market correction but as an identity crisis for people who spent years building AI systems and are now on the receiving end of them. That framing — builder-as-casualty — has no real home in the multi-agent creative production pipelines being built in parallel, where autonomous director, cinematographer, and editor agents collaborate without a human in the loop. The workers named in the layoff thread and the agents…