[northfield27]

Agreed. I believe this is going to be the trend.

I don’t think LLM context will able to digest large codebases and their algorithms are not going to reason like SREs in the next coming years. And given the current hype and market, investors are gonna pull out with recessions all over the world and we will see another AI Winters.

Code has become a commodity. Corporate engineering hierarchy will be much flat in coming years both horizontally and vertically - one staff will command two senior engineers with two juniors each, orchestrating N agents each.

I think that’s it - this is the end of bootcamp devs. This will act as a great filter and probably decrease the mass influx of bootcamp devs.

[deadbabe]

Bootcamp devs were always going to be doomed in the job market. They were a symptom of not having enough true classically trained computer science degree holding engineers to hire, so you compromised by looking for anyone that knew how to code well enough. But this problem eventually corrects.

Now, there are way too many computer science grads in a time when code is easy and cheap. Not much to gain from hiring a bootcamp dev over the real deal.

But I would say if you truly enjoy coding and you didn’t get to study CS in a university, a bootcamp is probably a fun experience to go through just for your own enjoyment, not for job seeking purposes. Just don’t pay too much.