They handle a few thousand students, if that, per year (not sure about exact number but that's the ballpark) and suddenly people are like "ah, that's the answer! incentive alignment!" There is an enormous amount of long-term research on social mobility/vocational training etc.
This discussion reminded me why I gave up Twitter threads—it's very hard to make reasonable arguments since it's in pieces. But let me just say that Lambda won't really shake up Johns Hopkins or UNC, and the people get to talk about all this go to these kinds of institutions.
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The threat here is that people think it will, and pour money into a scheme like this *at scale* rather than what we should do: fund community colleges and focus on creating well-paying jobs. Other than that, as a limited, tiny coding school, it's fine.
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