The market was saturated. As it turned out, the economy simply did not need that many software engineers. Joe Biden and Barack Obama told people, “learn to code”. They did, and they lost. Employers are not interested in entry level programmers as they did before. They want actual engineers who know how to build things and solve problems. They are looking for any excuse to fire you. AI is basically what an efficient economy does. It makes some jobs obsolete, or not as useful.