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Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage
(blog.herlein.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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This is probably a bad thing, but I can live with general programming skills becoming the new COBOL programming skills.
I think it's going to be a weird period where we're expected to do everything that involves real engineering, anything "business centric", and they're going to be like "yes we gave you $500k annual, please provide the Secure And Well Architecture of the Olden Times... We need you to redesign a new system from scratch because the slop is losing us money"
...which I'm personally okay with, because I didn't really save that much for retirement or plan on it anytime soon? I was getting more worried about grey hairs aging me out of software, but maybe they'll age me back in.