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One might argue that time in a seat doing a job under the supervision of a licensed professional, without getting fired, is a good demonstration of competence - and has the added bonus of the student getting paid for their time while learning. Apprenticeships can be beneficial to everyone involved and have the added bonus of supporting social mobility.

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Unless your job is just to get coffee for someone at minimum wage.

You can’t guarantee what someone’s job is day to day, and what they get to learn, at scale. Also the pay is terrible at most of these jobs, and significantly raises the cost to enter the field.

Apprenticeships are different from gopher internships.

Society has used the apprenticeship system to pass down specialized knowledge for thousands of years; it seems to work reasonably well.

Agreed and think this definitely applies to software. Most CS students would be better off in an apprenticeship learning under multiple skilled developers rather than 4 years of school.

I learned 10 as much my first year than in 4 years of school combined.

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