[saltyoldman]

You're coping. Everyone wants a remote software job. These are dead. If you want something in software, it will need to be robotics or space related and you'll drive to a location to do it.

If you want to be in a remote, small town, get into construction and become a builder with their own GC license in a few years. Then charge people 400k to build that little dream cottage with 2 guys (you and a team mate) twice a year. 150k each 100k mats for each house. Just a small warning: It's hard but real work and very rewarding.

[adamtaylor_13]

Wha do you mean these are dead? I work a remote software job and it ain't going anywhere from what I can see.

[saltyoldman]

I could have elaborated, but long term this line of work is dead. Will there be software engineers in 20 years? Can't tell you, but it won't be in the millions like it is now. Will those people KNOW a programming language? probably not. At some point the sheer amount of capabilities of agents will just keep going up and us humans are still writing buggy code. Waymo just declared that it's drivers are something like 13x better than human drivers... Agentic has only been around for what, 1 years maybe 2 if you count closed betas.

[r_lee]

"Will those people KNOW a programming language? probably not. "

if I'm able to learn all kinds of stuff in just a few hours, why would programmers 20 years from now not know programming languages?

just doesn't make sense.

[saltyoldman]

Yes, you could. Have you bothered learning how to wash your clothes with a washboard sitting next to a river? No, instead you using a washing machine (I presume).

There won't be much of a reason to learn a programming language at some point in the future.

[raw_anon_1111]

Interesting, I’ve been working remotely at “remote first departments/companies for 6 years across 3 jobs.

Admittedly the first was at BigTech in a “field by design” role that went RTO last year a year after I left.