Do you really believe that the majority of software engineers were "hacking on computers at age 13"? Can we stop pretending that everyone coding for a living is

Do you really believe that the majority of software engineers were "hacking on computers at age 13"? Can we stop pretending that everyone coding for a living is a passionate embodiment of the hacker ethos? Even thinking of myself (for whom open source was very important personally and career-wise), I didn't learn how to program until college. There are plenty of opportunities to improve diversity in tech at many stages of the pipeline. Hiring and retention are part of that pipeline. I think it's disingenuous to imply that tech companies are not at fault in any way here, and that there's nothing they can do short of time travel or investing in middle school education. I'm not saying everything in the article is the right answer, but there are a lot of good suggestions.