Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "This can't be good..." video.

  1. This is a perfect example of why it's important to understand how to read charts. If 100 companies all need 20 employees but there are tons of them out there, they can each publish one ad and select applicants for the different positions they need. If 100 companies all need 5 employees but there are only 250 devs looking for work at any given time capable of the positions, each of those 5 jobs at all 100 companies will get their own listings. Number of listings is a stochastic representation of the job market and says nothing about the employability of devs that average pay, average hours, or average turnover doesn't. I would expect devs of all people to recognize this chart represents nothing. Small business is the heart and soul of the nation, imagine 90% of all devs started successful businesses so while this chart looked like this, small business success rates quadrupled and nationwide incomes surged as a result... Would that be terrible just because indeed's listings took a nose dive? This data reflects nothing that can be extrapolated imho, just click bait and trying to drive salaries down. Be on the lookout for scary foreboding "science" to get published about the job prospects of programmers. Know what, though? Programming is hard and even gpt needs a junior to hold its hand when using it to write code. It pays well because only practise makes you better at it - hence the expertise and the salaries. Until they start selling anything that doesn't come with code needed to run/maintain it there will always be demand for devs, and so long as dashboard for UI are helpful for customers who aren't geeks, there will always be a version of web development. That demand isn't going anywhere, it'll inflate when it's cheap and contract when monetary policy dictates, that has nothing to do with the career prospects and everything to do with poor fiscal policy and government. They engineer cycles of boom and bust because that's how bankers arbitrage, by controlling the flow and capitalizing on both ends. It's greedy and dishonest leadership of economic policy, and absolutely nothing to do with anything practical about the field.
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