[g9yuayon]

> It will be incredibly lucrative to be one of the "ones who knows" in the relatively near future.

I'm not so optimistic on this if AI prevails. Think about the chip industry. It's an incredibly challenging field for only the top few to truly understand the art of chip design, yet even the top engineers may not necessarily have the same "lucrative" packages compared to the software engineers in the same percentile, let alone the pay of industry average.

In the end, it is the supply and demand that determines our packages. AI can suppress demand to the point that the entire industry needs fewer senior engineers than now, and we will then be paid less accordingly.

[rglover]

You're right. I think it will be less of an employee-employer relationship and those types will be hired guns on retainer (i.e., you don't need a lawyer until you do but it helps to have one on retainer if you're a big entity).