>> This is still predicated on the assumption that there's a STEM shortage right? Not at all. It is predicated on the assumption that a programmer is not the s

>> This is still predicated on the assumption that there's a STEM shortage right? Not at all. It is predicated on the assumption that a programmer is not the same as a compiler writer, and the former cannot exist without the latter, while the latter can exist without the former. Almost none of the theoretical advances we are having in machine learning, deep learning and what-not could happen without some people who are crazy enough to venture into graduate degrees. Not everyone who holds a graduate degree can write a compiler, true. But by the same token, not everyone who calls themselves a programmer can code either.