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Why "Boring" Tech Is the Biggest Career Arbitrage in 2026 (And Why Web Devs Are Flocking to SAP)

DEV Community: career·Andrea Antonio Perrelli·1 day ago
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Open LinkedIn or tech Twitter right now, and the sentiment is nearly identical:

1,200 applicants on a single junior frontend/React job posting within 4 hours.

Mass layoffs across VC-backed tech startups.

Full-stack engineers with 5 years of experience competing for entry-level compensation.

The looming anxiety of AI generating boilerplate web interfaces in seconds.

The modern software engineering landscape is suffering from an unprecedented crisis of hyper-saturation . Everyone learned the exact same tech stack (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python), built the exact same portfolio projects (Todo apps, weather dashboards, AI wrappers), and is fighting for the exact same shrinking pool of consumer tech jobs.

Meanwhile, an entirely separate universe of software engineering is quietly experiencing the exact opposite problem: massive enterprise budgets, an acute talent drought, and zero hype.

That universe is Enterprise ERP—specifically, Modern SAP and ABAP.

Here is the unfiltered…

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