Em Adespoton

Yup. Entry level wages have stagnated while food and housing prices have skyrocketed.

Exact same thing here.

If you ignore any company related to “cloud” or “AI”, especially if you focus on tech jobs at companies outside the software industry, there’s still plenty of hiring fresh coders going on.

$165,000 tech jobs are still out there. Usually they require at least 10 years experience, or a masters in mathematics or data science.

Fresh out of school? Try a $48-64k job and get some experience.

Still true a decade later.

I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.

To me, it’s too late for NIST there. China is driving the agenda in AI now, because the US took too long to get organized.