Bootcamps and CS degrees used to be the golden ticket to a tech career. 10 years ago.
Remember what you were doing 10 years ago? That’s a long time ago.
These days?
They're churning out generic coders into an oversaturated market.
I’ve seen this happening with every “lucrative” profession from law to MBAs - I saw this happening right before the Great Financial Crisis of 2007 and I saw it happening after 2016 as well.
Huge demand causes Universities and Bootcamps to sell more degrees.
This causes an oversupply of graduates.
The supply continues to rise because the demand is still growing … except the supply of low quality skill does not meet the demand.
This is why so many coding jobs get listed but not many people get hired
And then add to this the blistering pace of change.
What the market values when someone starts a degree is very different from what they pay for 3-5 years later.
But there is one thing that does not change in maturing markets.
Everyone's obsessing over token limits.
They're solving the wrong problem.
Google just dropped a guide on multi-agent context management that exposes what most developers get catastrophically wrong: treating context like string concatenation when it's actually an architecture problem.
Read it. Several times.
If you're building with AI—or plan to—this matters.
The Default Is Broken
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You learned to code. You can build. You solve problems. You're competent. You’re hard-working.Â
And you're still not getting hired.
So you blame the market. You blame AI. You blame hiring managers for being "gatekeepers."
You don't blame yourself for doing the one thing that actually matters: telling people you exist.
Let's be honest about what's happening here.
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You're avoiding marketing you...
After 4 years stuck learning "fundamentals" that got me nowhere as a lawyer, trying to become a developer, I learned something critical: the real skill isn't learning the hot new thing. It's learning the classical thing that underpins the hot new thing.
Like me, you've probably done a bunch of courses.Â
But unlike me, you probably have had to learn a bunch of things in the midst of massive AI h...
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