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.
(Warning: if you read this essay to the end, don’t be surprised or discouraged to learn that your AI engineering courses from 2025 are already obsolete. This essay is an effort to focus you on the meta-engineering skills that matter regardless of what AI hype technology comes up).
I've been having conversations with former colleagues from Google DeepMind, who are now scattered across Anthropic,...
And here’s an opportunity for those of you looking for coding jobs.
While everyone's fighting for the same shrinking pool of Big Tech jobs, the federal government just opened a side door most people will ignore.
The US Tech Force program launched last week. They're hiring engineers—salaries $150K-$200K, no degree required, skills-based only.
Most self-taught coders will scroll past this.
They w...
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
Here's what 9...
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