There is an overabundance of developers. Otherwise LeetCode interviews would not be a thing.

CharlieDigital 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think I implied there was a shortage?

Rather I'm pointing out that the mid-career devs are going to struggle advancing their foundational knowledge that is gained through hard won battles and reps; they're going to go nowhere in their careers.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk!

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varjag 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

There was always a shortage of capable developers coupled with abundance of unqualified (not to be confused with inexperienced). This explains both why development was so expensive and why the interviewing process was so ridiculous.

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reverius42 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, a true overabundance would bring salaries trending down (theoretically all the way down to minimum wage) until the overabundance is fixed by making people choose other careers.

	▲	varjag a day ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed and that's where I suppose we're heading now that dev work had been trivialized.