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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says
(www.businessinsider.com)
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I wonder how many engineers they’ll have to pull out of retirement in a few years to fix a lot flawed logic.
I remember back in the day when they had to pull Cobol programmers out of retirement to update mainframe software because of Year 2000 and they got paid a bundle for it.
Similar thing for customization of older SAP systems after SAP changed the language used to Java but those systems were still done in the old language.
So I expect that freelance senior designer-developers are going to get paid A LOT of money to come fix things in a few years' time, especially since in places with high AI adoption this is going to be way bigger in terms of size, complexity and seniority of expertise needed that either mainframe code updating for Y2K and updating customizations in old SAP systems.