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Pretty much no other engineering field made sense to go into for about a decade. Even kids who did go EE, Mech E, or even Chem E ended up taking software jobs. The pay, benefits, and work/life balance of SWE just absolutely obliterates everything else. Or did at least

Exactly this. Went into physics but the academic landscape is hell so shipped off to SWE.

Degrees take 4 years. It's a very laggy indicator.

People can switch majors.

But despite me saying that, I think it's going to take longer than four years. It takes a while for people to realize that a dream is dead.

Some companies hire junior devs to adopt AI-first practices to then drag their seniors in the same direction.

Juniors to push the accelerator, seniors to pump the brakes. It could work.

This is a reliable recipe for turning your systems into an absolute clusterfuck.

should be a fun decade :)

Right. CS Enrollments dropped 8% this year. High schoolers got the message.

And how do you think people go from fresh graduates to senior devs?