Contrary to most people I found this an interesting opinion, if only because it centers so much on SV culture. For those of us working in other countries and in

Contrary to most people I found this an interesting opinion, if only because it centers so much on SV culture. For those of us working in other countries and in unglamorous companies it has always been a very different kind of culture. Typically SV pioneers new ideas and new ways of working, and then over the next 5 to 10 years this slowly permeates global programming culture, but watered down. Covid has changed this dynamic because for once everything is changing everywhere all at once. I noticed two major changes already. The first thing was freelance work drying up, because new projects were put on hold. With most of the economic consequences (and bankruptcies) still to happen, this could go either way. Either the tech sector has a lot less work, with wages falling and everyone trying to get the security of a salaried position, or there is a boom of software with businesses trying to retool and freelance work coming back with a vengeance. The second thing is obviously the shift to WFH. This move could conclude with everyone being ordered back to the office (once vaccinated), or with structural WFH being a thing for always, and many if not most developers rarely seeing the inside of an office. I don’t think anyone knows where it is headed, but the global impact of covid makes it that for the first time the changes to programming culture are likely to happen everywhere at once, instead of happening first in SV and then slowly rippling out. That levels the playing field, and it makes for interesting times.