> I don't think this has much to do with AI Considering that ChatGPT was just one month old at the time of data collection, I think that is fairly safe to say.

> I don't think this has much to do with AI Considering that ChatGPT was just one month old at the time of data collection, I think that is fairly safe to say. > major 4-5 years ago 6-7 years ago, really. 4-5 years ago would realistically put us more like in the timeframe of now. > a confluence of factors crashed together to make programming a job straight from utopia for a short while. Things weren't horrible in 2018-2019, to be sure, but there were already signs of a coming downturn at that time. That, granted, was temporarily reverted thanks to said confluence of factors, but that came later.