We're in similar times to the 2000's era "dot com bubble burst". I got caught out in that fiasco, couldn't get a full time programming job for about 4 years. I

We're in similar times to the 2000's era "dot com bubble burst". I got caught out in that fiasco, couldn't get a full time programming job for about 4 years. I scraped by freelancing, but I also had generosity of friends to help me out with rent. It was a long hard 4 years, every month was difficult just feeding myself. Then things turned around. I don't really know if it's going to turn around anytime soon this time, and the AI bubble is going to make it a whole lot worse when it pops. "AI" is screwing up the world, and it's going to take people waking up that it's not the magic thing it was billed to be, and the world needs real developers, not only tin cans.