I am a dev with 6+ years of experience.<p>What is happening to the dev market? I can't help but notice a trend.<p>On twitter, I see 17 year old devs pulling in 120k+ annual income [1].<p>At 17, I had not even started my college yet.<p>Is this the new normal?<p>It all seems to be a bit surreal seeing teenagers make so much money in high school while they struggle to even make a proper git commit.<p>[1] https://twitter.com/PrasoonPratham/status/1468899558289592322
Software dev salaries are going up quite a bit. And when I was 17 I probably had enough experience doing software dev to justify getting hired. It's even easier today to get relevant experience at that age. I don't really see it as all that surprising.