Two more things. Bad code (in work, in reality, not in a hobby project) is rarely converted into good code. And the last one: in my twenty plus years of being a dev, this is the first year job offers simply just dried up. With bad code being good enough (hey, it compiles! it mostly works!), hopefully you and I will be the lucky few to still be in the business five years later.
Most code everywhere is bad code. Nobody cares unfortunately.
> And the last one: in my twenty plus years of being a dev, this is the first year job offers simply just dried up.
Actions of the US gov have caused a recession.
It's hard to find jobs in that environment
Put the blame where it's due.
AI is an excuse.
No company is going to hire now because of that.
There is also heavy bloat of incompetent software developers that needs to be shed.
Edit: Side note of shedding incompetent people
At work, I have a budget for tools, in the past this was handed over to contractors (think accenture).
They would come back with estimates of 1+ months, multiple developers and a manager for something I could do in a week.
They would deliver very poor quality and I had no choice.
With LLMs I can do the same quality of work in 30 minutes, then clean it up for a day and have a much better tool.
That budget is now used for other things and probably will be cut due to economic uncertainty.
So... what?
Visa restrictions can go both ways with US billionaires and politicians getting denied.
Who's gonna back down?