Comment by scarface_74

I was working in Atlanta GA for boring old profitable enterprise companies and the environment didn’t change at all.

I started working in 1996. By 2001, I was making $70K. The company I worked for did bill printing for utility companies. To put that in perspective, I had my first house built in the suburbs for $175k. This was well within the rule of thumb of not spending more than 3.5x income for a house.

On the other hand, I didn’t have that much invested in the stock market. The entire dot com bust was a shrug and curiousity to me while it was happening.

On the other hand, the real estate crash in 2008…

While all of my latest projects (cloud consulting) have in some form another involved “AI”, they are really just AWS API calls that are much easier using Gen AI LLMs. But could have been done with much more development and training of ML models before.

When the AI bust happens, it will have the same affect on me - none. Until businesses stop needing people who know how to translate the latest tech into business value, my career is safe.