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No. - Risk of loosening of immigration restrictions - Large and increasing supply of skilled workers from East and South-East Asia, who are willing to work fo
by foobarqux 11y ago
No.
- Risk of loosening of immigration restrictions
- Large and increasing supply of skilled workers from East and South-East Asia, who are willing to work for lower wages.
- Skill based work is hard to defend and retain in the presence of significant competition.
- Tech companies may create and make widely available training programs to become a software engineer, also increasing supply. (I don't understand why this hasn't become the main purpose of MOOCs).
Chamath Phalipapitya (sp?) called programming the "blue collar work of the 21st century".
- bayesianhorse 11y agoAll these factors don't matter if demand increases as it has done during the entire prior history of programming.
- woah 11y agoWe've seen the code that comes from companies and societies that treat it as blue collar work. Bloated and unmaintainable. Quality over quantity.
- FallDead 11y agoMOOC's have been shown to be ineffective most people dropout, and if you learn from an MOOC its unlikely you will hit most of the concepts, I think I have seen that when I worked as a tech recruiter for a year, there were tonnes and tonnes of iOS "Developers" who learned from coding shoppes and mooc they never make it past fizz buzz or even building anything more sophisticated then a twitter api call app.