I think this is like third? fourth? time I've been thru it.. God knows how many times in my career I've been told programmers were all gonna be replaced (Hell,

I think this is like third? fourth? time I've been thru it.. God knows how many times in my career I've been told programmers were all gonna be replaced (Hell, COBOL was IBM's ploy to make programming an 'entry level' job!). First AI craze I remember was reported in Doctor Dobbs in the '80s - first no-code craze was what - about 2000 ? And DBase/Clipper predated that. I remember layoffs in the 80s, the dot com bust, the 2008 crash.... It always comes back, fact is - there's not enough geeks to go around - and 10K boomers/day are projected to retire for the next 7 years. I'm currently just _starting_ to look for work after 6 months off, as I think its gonna start ramping back up in the next couple of months. I'm seeing plenty of openings, though I'll admit lots of them sound fairly boring. Still seeing a lot of non-AI jobs that pay well being offered (I'm in cloud infrastructure mostly). So I'm actually optimistic - and dam near everything is remote, which is a nice improvement over the last 20 years (I started WFH around 2000..) Talk of Unionizing tech has gone on for 30+ years as well... Don't really think it'll happen now.