The other part of the story is I have a failure of an older brother who doesn't work, has huge amounts of debt, and has told me a few times he's intrigued by the idea of a coding bootcamp and regularly blows me off when I try to teach him anything. Like I said I come from a trashy place, and I shouldn't have to explain how incredibly rude and dismissive of my entire life he's being by telling me something like that. I feel exactly the same way about bootcamps. They're entirely dismissive of a lifetime of effort I'm sure many others reading this have also put in. What makes you think it's possible to compress that when it's hard enough as it is even for those of us who had no other options? Are you saying you have something figured out that we didn't? You are certainly saying it can be done quicker and cheaper by running a bootcamp and I don't agree. Nobody will pick up your slack and train these people on the job and not even ChatGPT will make them more productive because they don't know what they don't know. They'll just be fired immediately and the further we go into the future, the hostility towards people who don't know what they're doing will only increase.
I guess I'm not really upset at you, but just deeply worried for anyone who takes a bootcamp and thinks that's a substitute for school when it's only the beginning of a much longer process I know few of them will ever complete. What about the rest who fail and are out that money? It's gotta be a worse success rate than just getting a real degree!