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There was probably a bit of exaggeration about the pay but I don't think the author talked about engineer quality. He is not wrong that you can get some sort of

There was probably a bit of exaggeration about the pay but I don't think the author talked about engineer quality. He is not wrong that you can get some sort of position from attending a coding school though (maybe not just any coding school), but it probably won't be 100k and equity. Someone is willing to pay for what a coding school produces though and in my experience, not all jobs require good engineers. When weighed against the time and money spent on college with today's dubious outlooks on ROI, code camps are understandably worth a look even if you won't be a good engineer or making 100k at the end of it. (as an aside, still waiting on Zed Shaw's boot camp destruction)

dudul 12y ago
The salary was an exaggeration, and really doesn't mean anything. What is $100k in SF? At the end of the day, aren't you better off making half that in a less expensive area? What bothers me most is the idea that coding is just a random skill that anyone can pick up over a weekend just by reading an O'reilly book. There is a push to make coding look easy, "anyone can do it, why not you?" "Let's teach it at school, even a 4th grader can pick up python". The goal is clearly to increase the supply and help tech companies drag wages down. But coding is not easy. I may be foolish but to me developer is a creative work, akin to writing a book, or a song, or painting. Not everyone is gonna be good at it. Would we say "yeah writing poetry is easy, just go to a poetry camp for 4 weeks"?