> After all, it's basically how us software engineers arrived to where we are today An increasingly smaller minority of us. The vast majority have gone through

> After all, it's basically how us software engineers arrived to where we are today An increasingly smaller minority of us. The vast majority have gone through a bootcamp, or an undergrad or similar to gain specific skills that they can apply writing software for a corporation. There's hardly any reason to believe the percentage of the general public that reach that level will be any higher than in the profession itself.