Canada

you need to start focusing on Code Review and QA. That is where the need is heading purely because most companies decided to leverage LLM's and now they're all finding that it's "not working".

I myself am a consultant/freelance developer and a year or so ago I decided to transition from dev work to code review for my clients. Most of my clients now have utilized AI for end to end builds and it simply didn't work. Now they're all collectively scrambling to fix what slop was produced. The issue is the vast majority simply don't know how OR they axed a good chunk of their devs and are left with juniors/vibe coders who can't fix it.

So now there's a market for individuals that can code review and potentially fix/refactor/whatever the slop that was churned out. Since transitioning to being, essentially, a digital janitor I've had more work/clients than ever before.

My advice is to get back on Linkedin but instead of shooting our resume after resume start (and I know this sucks, trust me) interacting with posts on there. Call out the tech bros for their AI bullshit BUT state that fact that you're in a position and qualified to fix the garbage. Companies, many start ups, will reach out to you without posting positions because their afraid to admit their fuck ups publicly.