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Discussion on: Are you more optimistic or pessimistic for the future of the software development career?

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Daniel Schulz

Cautiously optimistic.
Web development is a bubble of insanely high wages. Especially in the US, that's built on high risk venture capital. It's bound to burst at some point.
Also, with the covid thing now, climate catastrophies becoming more frequent, and nationalism on the rise world wide, there are strong hints to a historical recession. I don't believe that even the tech industry could compensate that.
However, developers are in high demand and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I don't worry for job safety, but I see drastically lower wages coming.