> I think we're starting to see the need for 'laborer' programmers. The mass offshoring effort in the US through the 00s was exactly this. The problem that ma

> I think we're starting to see the need for 'laborer' programmers. The mass offshoring effort in the US through the 00s was exactly this. The problem that many companies discovered is that you really get what you paid for. If you spec something out to a 'T'[1], you'd get exactly what you ask for - warts and all. If you don't provide enough detail to do that, you get to go back-and-forth until you do. And if you want anyone to troubleshoot a mildly complex issue... well, good luck. Maybe one in ten of the people who wrote the code from your spec have that ability. Some equilibrium has returned, but not before the damage was done - causing a lot of unfortunate misconceptions about the abilities or lack thereof for entire demographics of people. > code school For the most part, these are an attempt to create the same thing without the offshoring - 'teaching code' of that sort has been relatively common in offshore markets I've worked with in past jobs. I don't think that's their intention, but it does appear to be the end result. [1] To the point where you're more or less pseudo-coding the solution