[amusedcyclist]

It seems like people are constantly pessimistic about future salary for Software engineers. I'll present the opposite case, with the advent of software eating the world, good software engineers are infinitely more valuable than a good doctor or a good lawyer or whatever. This is only going to continue to get more extreme with software controlling more and more. Someone could stand up a web service or reduce server costs and save / make a company literally millions of $ (100's of millions at big tech). This was not possible 20 years ago when the job was much harder. Now conversely because its gotten much easier to write code, bad software engineers are basically worthless. So I predict what we'll see is an even more 2 tiered software developer salary market, where the best developers command crazy money while the bad devs get paid middling wages.