Tech employment in 10 years is going to favor candidates who know how to get the job done with the fewest moving pieces.

The current era of making the most complicated fucking thing possible is clearly nearing its conclusion. The writing is on the wall with the now weekly conversations about vendor and dependency management crises.

One might say to use something with more batteries included or whatever. I'd go 5 steps further - have you solved the problem outside the computer yet? Do you understand the domain model? Do you understand why the customer wants to pay for any of this bullshit in the first place?

I think that's approximately what it's going to look like. Excel, bash and powershell replacing kubernetes clusters.