This is exactly the kind of pointless discussion around rest apis

The naming of endpoints is not specific to REST actually.

AI as an expensive bandaid

If I find a nice (YT) video, I download it and play it locally.

If by 50% you mean all juniors/mid-level engineers will not find work, then I agree.

From time to time check a couple of ads in YT. They are full of low quality unrealistic AI generated ads.

Same experience. I’m based in Western Europe.

I would use that anger to still work for the industry. You still can get a job. Use AI to work minimally and perhaps get another job (part time?) and take advantage of AI as well to work minimally. Earn two paychecks (not big ones, but combined, good enough) and put your passion on side projects. Fuck companies

I think it’s because they are more convenient: CDs are cheap, you own your music. With iPods you save hundreds of dollars per year, and you get to keep your music (and the iPod shuffle is perfect for working out).

Writing changed everything. You barely (if at all) can tell me what humans in the past were thinking without relying on some written artifact.

That is a joke, right? E.g. as in there was no writing therefore no evidence of people having had thoughts?

That’s around 28K EUR/year. I know some junior-mid engineers that earn that (and they are good) in southern Europe.