What's a tech trend you're skeptical about, and why?

I don't know, a part of me hopes that my profession becomes just another boring line of work. I started doing this in the 90s when web dev was as unglamorous as any other line-of-business programming work, not much different than being a DB admin. Then over time it grew into a bubble (and then another) and then COVID hit and it all exploded... but that was never gonna be sustainable.

I would rather it be a mundane industry again without hypergrowth, attracting only the people who are really interested in it, rather than the folks who're in it for the money and who try to speculate on and grow every business and team into inevitable enshittification.

In my mind it's really just another trade skill, not entirely different from carpentry or plumbing, and should be treated as such and just casually exist in every neighborhood, mostly invisible, not be the end-all-be-all of the entire economy. Then people like us just live and work and immigrate like any other humble skilled craftsperson, not some hoity-toity digital capitalist. I hate the glamor and glitz and competitiveness -- and dark patterns and shitty management and MBA thinking -- that excess wealth brought to this industry.

shrug Maybe the AI boom will draw away all the capitalist speculators and web dev becomes just another unsexy mundane job again.

I didn't know that! Thank you for the info. It's something I've been talking to my SO about... she's more tied to the US than I am, but someday I'd love to get us both elsewhere.