Definitely. At the same time, there's a weird dynamic in the market - because of the boom of AI (driven mostly by cloud spending) architecture, the demand for cloud engineers and even general devops has surged, but mostly in the more senior 5+ years experience market. I am getting asked a lot of questions by people messaging me about how to enter after college, and I don't really have a good answer for them. The honest truth is that it's always been a little tricky and you've gotta be a little odd to get into it in the first place, and what I usually tell people is I don't believe many senior people doing it now ever "chose" it, it usually just happens to people.

Plus the fact that these AI coding assistants can almost do a passable job of a junior, to the point where most of their job is probably going to be just dumping crap into copilot or some gpt. I feel very very bad for anyone entering the market right now.