COMMENTARY/UPDATE: Codesmith updated their accepted stats today, 168 offers accepted between March and August 2024 VS 53 in March and April alone. Average base salary in those ranges down to $117K from $119K.

I'm not deleting or auto collapsing your posts. You have an extremely negative karma score (which is computed by Reddit, not moderators) and everyone with that negative of a score is treated the same by Crowd Control. Not overriding these filters does not mean we are deleting stuff. I explained that you can increase your score by engaging positively and not doing vote manipulation. Are you requesting to be treated unfairly? You are asking to override all of the stuff we have in place for everyone else that is in the same boat (which is a lot of people every day). If you don't accept that, I'm happy to hop on a call and walk you through it all to prove that to you. If you keep pushing back and ignoring my statements and insisting I'm lying, that's on you do take responsibility for. -------------------- PERSONAL COMMENTS: 1. That link to that video has ONE SLIDE on predictive analysis and ONE SLIDE on neural networks - out of 34. The rest is about various ways AI can be applied to the field of software engineer, and half of it is about Codesmith in general. The topics mentioned in the description are barely mentioned in my opinion. 2. What market data do you all have that companies are looking for AI engineers right now at scale? The content I've seen references anecdotal cases, like Legal Prompt Engineer, but that doesn't prove an industry wide trend. And second, "prompt engineers" are not software engineers and it's considered a tangential job like AI training. I think it's great if you change your focus to prompt engineering and AI-adjacent non-SWE roles and that's a good move with this current market. 3. I'm skeptical that people can learn AI/ML in a short period of time. A number of the best free courses in Gen AI are over 100 hours of videos to barely scratch the surface. So I'm also nervous that you are changing this, INCREASING PRICES, and crossing your fingers that this brand new program works. Potential students need to know that and understand the risks. Two other programs making the shift to AI have paused for the time being to cautiously approach this, BloomTech specifically trying to avoid mistakes of the past with their Web3 program. These are super reasonable concerns that any informed person should have and you should have good answers to these points. I hope it does work because like I said in #2, this could be where bootcamps end up fitting into the market. But execution matters, which is why it's super reasonable to encourage people to wait and see before diving in.