Economic version: Devs are the specialists least dependent on capital. If you're a surgeon, you need a hospital, if you're a windmill engineer, you need the wi

Economic version: Devs are the specialists least dependent on capital. If you're a surgeon, you need a hospital, if you're a windmill engineer, you need the windmill factory. Dev can work with all his own tools, it's so cheap you can have your own workbench (eg on Hetzner) for almost nothing. The range of firms with dev-relevant capital is very wide. Capital is cheap, too, thanks to the times we live in (let's not go there). Senior devs who don't need hand-holding are a rare form of labor. It's free to everyone to learn how to be a coder, it's all out there on the internet in a way that is unparalleled across subjects and in history. But we are not flooded with competent devs. It would appear the bottleneck isn't in educating people. Finally, the WFH revelation means markets are a lot less local. It only makes sense to look for a new job when you know all this. ---- BTW, it really is a dev's market right now. It's white hot, it's been white hot for at least half a year, and nobody knows when it ends. I encourage anyone who feels even a tiny bit inclined to have a look around. Even if you don't, try to finagle a day at home each week, because the recruitment game has been turned on its head by the ability of people to chat during work hours.