>watched every previous supposed threat to my career fade away after the hype cycle. Same. Some threats I've seen: Offshore development – in the early 2000's

>watched every previous supposed threat to my career fade away after the hype cycle. Same. Some threats I've seen: Offshore development – in the early 2000's it was all anyone could talk about. The American software developer was dead, there was no reason not to hire someone for pennies on the other side of the world. This mostly resulted in middle management expecting me to manage the offshore developers until they realized they were just dumping money into consulting management firms. No one talks about this anymore, yet the economics and tools are even more advantageous to offshoring. No Code – Worse than offshoring. Some byzantine framework that will handle everything. You just end up debugging the framework. When management goes this direction, I just move on. >I will still type code in some 20+ year old language for a living. So true. Even Swift and Rust which are relatively brand new languages are both 8 years old. A developer going to college today will see these as mature languages by the time they enter the workforce.