| There’s never been a better time to be a developer.
Let’s take the internet wayback machine before the dotbomb days.
Companies provided the hardware and software to work on. Required travel was reimbursed. You had your own work area and it was for working in. Productivity was measured in new features and bug fixes. Bonuses were plentiful. Salaries were good (100K/yr with about 5 years experience and a high level security clearance).
Today, companies expect you to provide your own hardware and software. Travel isn’t reimbursed. Work areas double as company storage areas. You often have to time-share a cube. Productivity is measured by the number of lines of code produced. There are no bonuses and experienced developers get 80K/yr, maybe.
Today is the golden age? Not to people who’ve been doing this for a few years.