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> I dunno. There's also a good chance that you just end up being left behind like graybeards that only wanted to code in C and assembler.

All the people I know in the US with those skills make huge amounts of money- at least, the ones who haven't already retired rich.



Yes. The ones who maintain high risk system software that allows all these machines to be able to train LLMs, compile the systems software or maintaining systems that ingest 2% of the worlds traffic are the ones who are making a lot of money out of this.

Not the ones maintaining frontend web apps or "vibe coding".




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