Raw LLM Responses

Short answer: Labor supply will take a long time to shift back down to where real demand is, but ultimately likely will as people exit the field. Enshittification will probably make AI far less accessible or "profitable" to seamlessly integrate into any and all biz and that's assuming it really gets more functional. Inflation will be high for awhile and so the startup culture that dominated the late 2010s isn't likely to come back for quite some time either but small, mid and even large companies will likely eventually be comfortable with more openings. US devs are considerably, arguably over, paid far more than in the rest of world and it's basically just another job in many countries, so me see just that. I think we had a long time of "everyone and anyone can be a rockstar" so very few actually were and people don't have the capital to put on a show for everyone. Man, I really regret throwing away the easy asf gig I got right after I graduated in 2021. Granted, I was getting opportunities left and right, but it was always in stuff I 100% didn't want to do or have really any background in. Got tired of employers lying about what I'd be doing let alone other things (like my manager even being in the US, which they weren't). Started grad school in Computer Engineering with a plan of being a RA, but it was expensive, the chair/dept head completely changed the entire focus to AI in the middle of semester, and overall multiple professors were just...lowkey hostile and elitist. That, and some stuff happened that changed my desire to do that, go back up that school, and overall destroyed my mental health. But, I learned a bit more that wasn't I wanted to do and gigs were still more/less plentiful. As for AI, I was getting offered $144/hr to implement it for a dude at his healthcare company but that fell apart for a lot of reasons, but did get me a month of tech consulting experience later. But since then...nothing. Just tutorial hell, unfinished projects, and many of