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In addition to skills, people have *titles*. Titles come from promotions, which means that they come from self-advocacy and luck. In 2017 when engineers were a red-hot commodity and people could get raises by skipping from one company to the next every 6 months, we had a fair amount of title inflation. In 2026 when layoffs are happening every year in the tens of thousands and early-career folks are barely hanging on, title advancement is significantly slowed.