If you are an enterprise developer working at a bank, insurance company, airline etc, you have been easily replaceable commodity for well over a decade and comp has stagnated for a decade. Those types of companies are reaching out to me today offering the same comp for the same type of role I was getting in 2016-2018.

If someone hoped to make a career by turning well defined requirements into code forever, the writing was on the wall when it was easy enough for anyone to become a good enough full stack developer/mobile developer/web developer etc.

You are now seeing the same in BigTech where knowing how to reverse a b tree isn’t good enough to get that $225K+ a year mid level job.

AI has just accelerated that trend. The transition I started making a decade ago was not to be just an undifferentiated ticket taker and get closer to dealing with the “business” and taking on projects with larger scope, impact and ambiguity - a true senior developer.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

Even though part of my job has been to produce code for 30 years, it’s been well over a decade since I had to interview based on coding tests. I’ve had 7 jobs since then including one at $BigTech.

AI can’t talk to customers. It can’t solve XYProblems. It can’t navigate corporate politics and conflicting priorities.