[wyclif]

Not only is ageism a real thing, but in order for software development apprenticeship to work you have to have a supply of skilled engineers with the time to mentor. And as I've found out the hard way, the people that are the most qualified to effectively mentor engineers are the same people who don't have time for mentorship because they are founding startups.

Y Combinator and, to a lesser extent, the better coding bootcamps, are trying to solve this problem and I feel we should be supportive of that and encourage more of those initiatives (and I'm not looking to start another subthread about the effectiveness of coding bootcamps, but merely pointing out that they are an attempt to solve the problem of mentorship at scale).