Baby sitting LLMs is already my job and has been for a year. It's kind of boring but honestly after nearly 20 years in the game I felt like I was approaching endgame for programming anyways.
Average salary? Salaries are determined by the size of the company, how much value software engineers add, supply of software engineers, and the location of the office.
That's kind of the tradeoff you make with any low-code/no-code technology. You leverage prebuilt components and string them together to achieve some kind of task. Which isn't most efficient thing in the world to do but it does work assuming you have enough compute resources to throw at it, and return what you generally achieve is an end product that's completed faster than the traditional development route.
You could just use SQL but then you'd have to develop and test the entire infrastructure to support your component-oriented architecture from scratch, and at that point you're kind of just reinventing the wheel because that's basically just pandas with less features.
Low-code is kind of just Authorware for a new generation... assuming you're old enough to remember that technology.
As someone who's not neurotypical and grew up in the 1990s I don't think we really did much for mental illness or have much of understanding of it until the past 15 or so years. Growing up the school system regarded people are disabled, learning disabled, lazy, normal, or gifted. There was no one checking kids out for social-anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, etc. unless there was an extremely serious problem with their behavior.
Within the past 40 years they used to lock people like me up, give us lobotomies, forcibly medicate us, etc. Its easy to forget how society used to treat folks with mental illness. Its frankly no wonder that people to this day still hide it. Heck, I've had to contact the EEOC more than once. But the thing is, social-media didn't cause this, video games didn't cause this. I've always been genetically predisposed to this. In my opinion, unfettered access to the Internet in general is probably the worst environment for people with predispositions, but to simply blame everything on the environment we've create online through video games or social-media is wrong if not irresponsible.
I think your lobotomy timeline is off? As I understand the history, lobotomies became less common in the 1950s, once antipsychotics and antidepressants were available, and by the 1970s were rarely used. By 1984 it would not have been part of standard practice in the US.
"Not neurotypical" is a very wide category, and the vast majority of such were neither locked up nor given lobotomies.
On the other hand, ADHD kids in the 1990s were indeed forcibly medicated, as in, some schools coerced parents to give Ritalin to their child in order to attend school. IDEA 2004 included the 'Prohibition on Mandatory Medication' to prevent schools from doing that: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/300.174 .
> Remote work allows you to live virtually wherever you want.
That's not exactly true per se. My wife is from the country of Tunisia and my plan was to live and work from there, but once I got to the offer stage at each and every company said I must work within the US citing IRS regulations. While I'm not entirely clear why I've also seen a number of remote jobs that are only eligible in certain states within the US as well.
The situation is even worse if you happened to move to a US territory because you're in a quasi-unemployable zone since US companies won't hire in most of the territories (I have never been given a specific reason) and the EU basically bans business with a few of them for odd tax reasons (that shouldn't apply since the banking system is still run by US institutions).
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