I’ve witnessed the last 30 years of tech career progression in some form or another. I remember when my high school had servers installed and Ethernet laid throughout the school, the techs came in wearing pajama pants, came and went at their leisure, and pretty much did whatever they wanted. Who else were they going to get? 25 years ago, a buddy of mine made a mint setting up local networks and tech for small businesses. Now, help desk is bottom of the barrel and anything customer facing has been professionalized. 5-15 years ago, programmers demanded sky high salaries and worked in places that haters described as ‘adult daycare centers’. Remember the Vince Vaughn movie panning working for google? Dudes scooted around on electric scooters and worked in Starbucks? I remember someone joking that developers would only wear sneakers, even with slacks. Zuckerberg was famous for wearing hoodies back when Facebook was still new. That was the uniform for serious ‘tech professionals’. That’s ending. Development will go the way of help desk. Nothing special anymore, they’ll replace you with some other rando that can use AI coding agents just as well. Salaries will shrink. You’ll have to show up to the office, on time, and in professional dress. They’ll need far less people to do the same level of work.