So for decades were told to skip trade jobs and go to college. Plumbing and electrical work were all seen as dead-end careers. Now plumbers are booked out for weeks, pulling six figures, and there's a massive shortage because nobody learned the skill.
I think we're doing the exact same thing with programming right now.
The whole vibe is "AI will write all the code, why bother learning to program."
Fewer people learning to code + same or growing demand for people who understand code = the trades shortage all over again, just in tech.
I genuinely think in 20 years the guys who can read and debug code without AI holding their hand will be like today's plumber. Hard to find, charging whatever they want.
Am I overthinking this?
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