[mberning]

On one hand I am glad that graduates are getting education and opportunities without subjecting themselves to mainstream educational institutions.

On the other hand, it does concern me that this is one step closer in the race to the bottom for developers.

It won't be long before being a developer is just another poorly paying job.

[svachalek]

This sort of thing has happened before, with the "fog a mirror" interviews of 1999 and all the offshoring that happened a few years later. In the first case people all thought there was plenty of room in the "new economy" but our jobs would all be dumbed down permanently, in the latter there was a lot of doom and gloom about how software development was no sort of future for first-world children.

But in both cases, the results were brutal to the companies that jumped in thoughtlessly. I've no doubt the same is true here again. Over the long term I expect we'll see some big changes in career education but I don't think established professionals are going to be overrun with high school dropouts anytime soon.

[mberning]

Probably not, but as you mention, for some the implications can be dire.

[woah]

That kind of attitude can only mean one thing: you doubt your own skills and the usefulness of what you do.

[mberning]

Far from it. I am a decade in to my career and will likely not be impacted by these trends. I am more concerned with the next generation of developers entering the workforce. They could be first generation of developers to be worse off than we are now (compensation, job stability, etc.)

[tostitos1979]

Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ... this is awfully close to a personal attack.