In the original dot comm bubble, there were about 700k US devs. Now there is nearly 5M. In the dot comm bubble, we lost 5-10% of developers. So far in the curre

In the original dot comm bubble, there were about 700k US devs. Now there is nearly 5M. In the dot comm bubble, we lost 5-10% of developers. So far in the current environment, we've lost about 250k jobs, which is right around 5% also. There was a big difference between now and then too: then, so many companies were nothing burgers with no real product and no real revenue. I graduated in 2005. I chose to go into public education as a teacher because it paid more than software development (35k for a dev, 40k for a teacher). Yeah, shit's hard right now. I still think it was worse back then. Nobody would consider it a better choice to be a teacher today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph... https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs