[astrange]

Also the end of full R&D expensing, which made software engineers in particular much more expensive in the US.

[dv_dt]

But that got rolled back in the last budget bill if i was following correctly

[axus]

Is the hypothesis that the next 24 months will be measurably better for software engineering jobs than the last 24 months?

[astrange]

Hard to say. There's kind of a lot going on.

[jordanb]

Either the tax treatment has an effect or it doesn't. If the market doesn't get better we can at the very least say that the whole tax thing was overstated.

[chairmansteve]

Probably in China.

[red-iron-pine]

not if 996 is still a thing