>>8676519
Partly, it's actually a mix of things.
>software companies adopted easier to use (but worse performing) programming languages so they could lower the bar for entry to getting a programming job, diluting the labor pool and making programmers cheaper to hire
>raj and pajeet started churning out "google dev" (retards that google everything without knowing anything) IT companies that scam companies into hiring their "cheaper" workforce but really end up bringing on 2x as many people as needed to do the job, with most hires being nepo roles getting a free ride while one guy googles the solution to most problems, and worst case they hire one guy that knows his shit to fix the problem if they haven't been dropped after a year
>"""AI""" becomes publicly accessible, large software companies start using it to generate mountains of garbage spaghetti code, worst offender being microsoft currently, resulting is absolutely dogshit software written by a machine trained on retarded, unmaintainable, monolithic codebases, all maintained and approved by retards that barely know what they're doing
>actually competent devs are either sitting in decent rolls with decades of experience that they won't be losing any time soon and don't give a shit about how bad it is because lol six figures, or have already retrained for other industries with whatever they made before the market dried up
>google, on top of all of this, is constantly reaching into it's incoherent black box of a search algo and tweaking things so certain things don't come up in searches without explicitly saying anything, aiming for a sanitized version of the internet because that's what's good for business, and google has always acted like it just owns the internet because the drooling retards there wrote a decent search algo decades ago and are still sniffing the canned farts from those days thinking they're the smartest people on earth
t. former software developer that had to deal with this for a decade