In a last hope to survive, bootcamps are going all in on "Gen AI" programs aimed at their own alumni - 3.5 major bootcamps pivoting to Gen AI courses (Codesmith, BloomTech, App Academy, Deep Atlas (original Hack Reactor team)). AA and BT have PAUSED all SWE programs as of today (Opinions Inside)

\+1. I should have maybe talked about this more, but I think AI will create a ton of new jobs that don't exist at the intersection of tech and other fields. I actually think Codesmith is philosophically most aligned with me on this of the 4 but they are going about it in a really weird way for marketing it haha, which is an artifact of this pivot. They can't say overnight "all you 3500 SWEs that paid us $70M over the past 10 years.... we're no longer making SWEs and we're instead making prompt engineering lawyers" They can do the following over the course of 2 years though: 1. redefine SWE as the "modern engineer", someone who is less coding focused on has broad capacities to solve any problems 2. re-target the definition of the "problems" to "legal prompt engineering" 3. most of these "SWEs" start getting these "X prompt engineering" roles. 4. they remove the word SWE and call themselves a prompt engineering/AI-tech-jobs bootcamps. It's not a bad strategy, but it hinges on short term misleading people that those 2021 and 2022 CIRR numbers are still real and there is an 80% chance of getting a SWE job and few people are falling for that. If they still have a lot of that $70M left in the bank then maybe they can pause indefinitely and reboot as a purely AI immersive when those jobs are more well defined.