I don't know, the expiration of low interest rates seems to fully explain the slump in the software industry, without considering the advent of chatbot-assisted

I don't know, the expiration of low interest rates seems to fully explain the slump in the software industry, without considering the advent of chatbot-assisted coding. The job market is just much smaller and new entrants will unfortunately have a tough time. We may be back to the days of de rigeur unpaid software internships, or college grads taking other, non-programming jobs. But it seems like a bad sign for a technology when think pieces need to be written portraying skeptics as cro-magnons on the evolutionary scale of adoption, there's something very "emperor's new clothes" about it. The value of revolutionary tech typically speaks for itself and doesn't need extensive apologetics.