1) I think part of this can be explained by the disproportionate living expenses on the west coast, especially in The Valley. I wonder how those numbers on doct

1) I think part of this can be explained by the disproportionate living expenses on the west coast, especially in The Valley. I wonder how those numbers on doctors and lawyers would play out if you constrained them to San Francisco? 2) I do think there's a partial bubble, though. What I tell people is, programmers today are like literate people in the middle ages. You can do hard things with reading and writing, but reading and writing aren't inherently hard. It's just that they weren't taught to the masses back then, so you could be hired as a scribe simply because you knew those basic skills. I think once public education catches up (or affordable education; the bootcamps you see everywhere now are starting to close the gap), the basic ability to code will quickly drop in value. There will still be high value placed on skilled programmers (the poets and technical writers of the programming world) - though their salaries will probably see a bit of a correction too - but I think the bottom will drop out beneath them, and you'll have to do more than just learn JavaScript to be valuable.