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Ask HN: What Is Happening to the Market?

3 points by jokestir ↗ HN
I am a dev with 6+ years of experience.

What is happening to the dev market? I can't help but notice a trend.

On twitter, I see 17 year old devs pulling in 120k+ annual income [1].

At 17, I had not even started my college yet.

Is this the new normal?

It all seems to be a bit surreal seeing teenagers make so much money in high school while they struggle to even make a proper git commit.

[1] https://twitter.com/PrasoonPratham/status/1468899558289592322

6 comments

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uberman
Alas, it is not just teens who sometimes struggle to even make a proper git commit.
tboyd47
What's wrong with that? Salary is all relative to cost of living. And Git is typically not taught in schools.
jokestir
Seems like I am out of touch with reality then.

If 17 year olds with no experience get that much, then I dunno about experienced devs.

tboyd47
Experienced devs can make much more than that. Does that surprise you?
yuppie_scum
If Twitter was reflective of broader reality, Bernie would have been president 3 times already
zaphar
Software dev salaries are going up quite a bit. And when I was 17 I probably had enough experience doing software dev to justify getting hired. It's even easier today to get relevant experience at that age. I don't really see it as all that surprising.