I don't really care about the dev future as a few years ago I started to divert from it and most of my income is in other things.
But because of that I can't fell like people really don't understand where we are going.
I have a conspiracy theory that even VCs are on it. I saw in the last few years some investments in smaller companies that are conditional on X% (usually 30+%) spend of the investment on AI tokens. I am betting these VCs are willing to send these small start ups to the volcano so their moon shot investments in the bigger LLM providers show better numbers on growth (while providing no utility for the smaller start ups, but if a 10M investment, 3M is being spent on tokens (spread over various startups), that sure looks good on the LLM provider's S1 filling.
Entire countries have fought entire wars with this m.o. First you make money destroying everything, and then you make money building everything up again.
OOC what's your other income from?
investment rental properties, just normal investments with boring returns, carpentry, electrical installations, handy-man jobs.
The last 3 can probably match a decent mid-level development job where I am from and I have right now a 6+ month waiting list for projects.
Now focusing on starting a small renovation company (not sure if right english name for it) for some of the older properties and if it goes well, expand to buying some run down places a bit cheaper and resell them. (Had limited success with this before, but was subcontracting most of the work, now want to bring it in-house) (ps: not buy for 100k and sell for 500k, but something like buy for 100k, spend 40-60k and sell for 180k)