← Timeline

The "Modern Software Engineer": Refuting the "lawyer engineer" and instead an argument for Specialization + Collaboration

r/codingbootcamp

u/g8rojas wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

We need both. The fact is the number of people that can change the world that are also willing to do it is small. We need those people. But we also need the other people who on an extreme I might call pixel pushers. "Pixel pushers" is going to change in meaning, but it nic

u/michaelnovati replied ·
I agree in practice as well. We're going to need all kinds of programmers and tech-adjacent roles in the future and more and more non-tech jobs will be tech influenced. I think going to a bootcamp is a way to get some tech experience to even help in those roles! My argument is that one bootcamp is already pushing these adjacent jobs as the roles the "Leader\[s\] in the Software Engineering Industry" are taking and I'm pushing back that that I beleive that narrative is false.