Raw LLM Responses

From what I can see, yes. I started my career in RF tech. I was told I had a super long and amazing career ahead of me by my management; my peers were taking off left and right for other industries, telling me RF was finished in this country. This was about 2006 or so. I believed the managers and company I worked for, boy was I wrong. Six months later, doors were shuttered, severances were pitiful, nobody but nobody needed anyone in that field whatsoever. I have never seen anyone advertising in earnest for RF roles since. Most were outsourced a long time ago. I went from that to embedded systems, C, C++, etc. I still see some roles, but it was in no way as strong as it was in 2010. Again, another thing that got outsourced largely to European countries, anyone but the UK. I went from that to straight software in the Microsoft/Java worlds. Here's the thing about your run of the mill standard C#'ers. Dot net is a fairly well maintained ecosystem. I don't believe you need to have oodles of experience to be dangerous, you certainly do not need to be degree calibre. And as a good 80% (pure guess) of software being made for businesses today is CRUD work, with anything fancy being punted out to another organisation's WSDL/API/whatever, then does it matter if your engineers are a little less savvy? I have seen a good few projects punted out to Indian code farms before. To disagree with you slightly, though I am positive that there are individual exceptions, the grand majority of what I have seen back is pitiful in terms of code quality. A lot of it doesn't even work well, another lot of it is straight copy pasta. But, it "works" insofar as users can still CRUD to their hearts' content. Who cares if it's lower quality CRUD'ing behind the scenes? So to answer your question, I still see the odd roles for the higher-end work, so if you know your algorithmic theory, largely likely driven from either a very long career or university teaching, you are in with a chance. If y