From the comments it seems that this community (mostly career software people) is starting to move into a new phase of grief about the median software engineer losing their hoped for permanent place in society.

-2021-2024 was Denial

-2024-2025 was Anger and Bargaining

-2026 seems to be some combo of anger, bargaining and acceptance depending mostly on your class/age

I think we are still in the denial phase.