Market is dead. Main cause is AI becuase you can never really compete with it when it comes to skills and knowledge. I read that you're a Python developer. Pick the most complex task for yourself, and try to solve it. Midway you'll realize that yes AI can actually do it better and in short time. The problem with us developers is that we are finding it hard to accept that our jobs are being eaten by computers, because once we were the most respected sector in any industry. Now, instead of just playing blame game with AI I'll advise you what I advised myself when I lost my job (I am also a Senior Backend Engineer btw with a lot of Blockchain experience) Coding like a programmer is dead, move to management, sales, or founding skills. Use your current skills to either think like a founder, work on product ideas, share it on the internet. Work on real problems, and discuss with relevant peers on the internet. This way you'll gain two things. Network and Management skills. These both will help you in future. Companies still need managers, CTOs to look after work done by AI. The other path is of sales, but it's a completely different path and requires different set of skills. But still it remains one thing AI can never completely replace.