@p

I don't think our IT marketplaces are that different, so your opinion surprises me.

There are tons of data Engineers, data Scientists, machine learning engineers out there who are subpar programmers or have near-zero networking knowledge. You and others like you are the minority. I am just not seeing that competence in the marketplace whatsoever except for the startups that compensate you with equity only.

To use a WoW analogy, most of the 20s to mid-30s "kids" out there who are paid at the higher end in the "IT" marketplace are not warriors(sysadmins), rogues(db admins), or mages(coders), but hybrids that don't do any one thing well: ethical hackers, data engineers, data scientists (paladins, shamans, druids).

Universities are graduating kids with computer science degrees that have outdated knowledge and they haven't found a way to block the current generation of kids from NOT using ChatGPT on their assignments, thereby hardening core IT skills.

As GenAI progresses, the "I learned to code to get a job" crowd will shrink and the "I'm the next Steve Wozniak" crowd will leverage GenAI like mathematicians leveraged the TI-83 and will take Computing to the next level. Probably creating a bunch of new fuzzy fluffy hybrids, but hey...someone needs to be able to talk to the C-Suite to let the Wozzes of the world do the genius work.

@ins0mniak