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There is no flood of skilled developers... There is a flood perhaps of outdated devs, novices, people who don't know how to negotiate or apply themselves, and phonies... Reports like this are pure sensationalism... There are still far too many disciplines and contexts within development to put the career of "being a developer" all into one bag.

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Yes there absolutely is a flood of skilled developers, in fact there's so many of them they're expected to solve two Leetcode hards in a 45 minute interview to get a job now. Look at how many people got laid off in the last year, a lot of them are skilled

there is that endless spiral of tools 'n frameworks that drive developers to bestow the Next Best Dev Tool Ever that must be considered. If you're at the front of that wave, you're good to go but the detritus left behind has to be comprehended by others for some time after.

I start seeing those pictures of kids sorting mountains of western e-waste when someone declares they want to get into dev/ops

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