Both boot camps and academia do a poor job of preparing developers for a real career, they just started at opposite ends of the problem and never provide enough

Both boot camps and academia do a poor job of preparing developers for a real career, they just started at opposite ends of the problem and never provide enough depth to get to the good part in the middle. (I'm a very biased self-taught developer from the late 1990s who just happened to hit the industry at the perfect time)