[dartos]

That’s what happens when a niche profession goes mainstream.

The concentration of passionate curious computer tinkerers is much lower.

[surajrmal]

Programming hasn't been niche in over 25 years.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0254477200A

[dartos]

Niche-ness isn’t a hard metric, but the argument is the same for “this is what happens when a profession hits a critical mass of people just in it for the money and not at all for the enjoyment of the profession.”