The transformation of the software profession into law is progressing. As we engineer most moderate-difficulty tasks away, what remains is the trivial or the ch

The transformation of the software profession into law is progressing. As we engineer most moderate-difficulty tasks away, what remains is the trivial or the challenging, and these two classes of task correspond to the peaks of the new bimodal salary distribution. We have a glut of people in the field capable only of the former class of task, so that peak is going to rather low. This dynamic isn't speculative. It's _exactly_ what happened to law. It's what happens to any field that goes through a boom and attracts a certain kind of person who's more motivated by immediate financial reward than talent or passion.