shortsighted and a bit late anyway

what?

is your favourite colour?

Yellow, yours ?

Wrong!

Is not a color.

Blue. No, yel--

Closed source will do squat unless you protect your binaries with some sort of secure enclave encryption scheme. AI can reverse engineer your binaries and deliver a copyright-laundered version in hours or days.

You give the user access to the software over a web interface. He has never access to the binaries because they are on your servers.

is this an excellent LARP bait or someone with these sincere views?

Why not both?

We can call it Coding Canutism.

Who exactly is it that will be doing the gatekeeping? I have a hard time imagining companies caring much about competitive coding scores, and I’ve certainly never heard of layoffs being decided based on LeetCode performance.

> layoffs being decided based on LeetCode performance.

thats not what gatekeeping is

Two decades learning from others, then close the gate. Can’t ding you for inconsistency though. Your contribution to this discussion is consistent with your new ethos. Good luck with your new approach to the world.

I took his comment to mean that programming jobs should be kept for people who genuinely care about developing a deep understanding and a willingness to learn, instead of those just typing prompts and not really caring beyond that.

That's the charitable way of interpreting it. The less charitable way is that they're bitter that open-source has basically been used to train their replacement, and that they want to turn programming into effectively a guild-based profession to protect the jobs of those presently in the industry. Similar to the button-making guilds of the past, for instance.

Well there is something between 'button making guilds' and 'go to bootcamp for 2 months to be a software engineer'

Every other profession does gatekeeping. Yet we dont see any animosity towards them for doing so. Infact we condone it.

I have animosity for most of them!

can you share specifically what animosity you have towards doctors?

> That's the charitable way of interpreting it

It's a good thing that "interpret people's comments charitably" is one of the top guidelines on this forum then

Pulling up the ladder is very common among any kind of society, profession and immigration policies. And people advocate for it all the time.

I'm not sure if I agree with this but I find the downvotes at even the suggestion of some mechanisim to protect employment sad.

No other profession is as eager to make themselves obsolete as those who build software.

Maybe they think the world runs on meritocracy. Anyway looks like now they are seeing what happens when there are no gates at all and anyone can do what you do.

You need to explain why.