[HamSession]

Nope, in fact you are going to see salaries start to retreat as more people get into the industry.

The field that will collapse the hardest is going to be data science. I speak to this as a data scientist, where most I meet don't have the knowledge to perform their duties. Eventually our salaries will decrease to those of traditional office workers/middle managers.

What is a engineer to do in this situation? The answer is to specialize, or gain exclusive access. Specialization is obvious, and exclusive access are things like clearances, certifications, and networks. Of course, this omits paths such as entrepreneurship.

[gizi]

> Nope, in fact you are going to see salaries start to retreat as more people get into the industry.

That is what they said 15 years ago. Getting into the industry is not hard. It is staying that is hard. You need a respectable amount of talent and will power for that. There is an incredible amount of tourism going on in our industry. Put out an advert for a programmer and you will understand why recruiting programmers is so exceedingly costly:

http://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code at all. I repeat: they can't write any code whatsoever.

[nathanv221]

Is this actually the origin of the fizz buzz? I was under the impression it had been around at least sense the 90s.

[enraged_camel]

>>Nope, in fact you are going to see salaries start to retreat as more people get into the industry.

This would only happen if the growth of supply (of labor) is greater than the growth of demand (for software).

Which has simply been not the case. Just the opposite in fact.

As software "eats the world," we see an ever increasing demand for programming. This is likely to remain the case for the foreseeable future.