They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia

Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia by Noos on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:23PM (#19894318)

So here's the thing. What do those people do?

tech people have been automating jobs away and insisting the future is code for a long time now. Now all of a sudden we get "coding is hard" and the non-traditional bootcamp education they pitched only really works for highly motivated self-starters, often with preexisting engineering or science backgrounds.

So what do they do? What exactly are they going to train into?

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Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia by throwawayjava on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:01PM (#19895148)

> tech people... they

We're commenting on an article about a coding camp founded by a professional TED talker who's now in law school.

The "they" pitching bootcamps and the "they" automating jobs away are two different "theys".

People who have been doing software for the last 20 years have always been saying "coding is hard" and "a few months in a coding bootcamp isn't sufficient preparation for a career in tech, especially when the winds of the market shift".

But no one wants to hear "high-paying jobs require spending years getting good at doing hard things".

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