Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

I found this read and the data referenced thought provoking. I've said for years that a career in technology is a career in learning. The tools and skills needed today likely didn’t exist five years ago, and that will be true in another five. Passionate technologists are almost always passionate learners.

Computer-related occupations receive the highest score by far, 4.8. Note that the mean and standard deviation of this measure are ~3 and ~1 respectively, so computer-related jobs are nearly two standard deviations away from the typical job in America

I hadn't really considered the continual learning demand of technology compared to other professions. The need for continual learning and the demands of that over decades of a career can be challenging.

The argument, that to get and keep enough talent you have to slow down the rate of change, has some merit to it. We all know this in tech. You can’t just adopt every new language and tool in part because not enough people know it. But I think we look at that with a micro lens, and the assertion here is that it is a macro problem.