Decades of research shows job training programs don't work at scale because of lack of *supply* of appropriate good jobs. There are always nice learned-to-code stories (I'm one: started coding as a kid and it literally saved my life) but those don't scale.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html …
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Plus, their path to employment -- you'll learn, you'll apprentice, you'll star, you'll be hired -- was moonshine. This looks like an old-fashioned con job in trendy clothes. Nothing tech about it, except the rhetoric.
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It is mostly snake-oil. There are also genuine well-meaning efforts. But so much research on all this in many versions has the same result! It doesn't work at scale (once you get through the very thin layer that was already poised to do well and provide your success stories).
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