u/portugese_fruit wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
i think they would need to pivot to mainframe programming rather than the traditional curriculum, >>>If you are a Gauntlet or Codesmith you have to train people to be IRS-ready, like dealing with COBOL and other legacy systems, and then you get those people to pass the governme
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
So the partners that have been around for 10 years doing government contracting have expertise in this.
The new people who have like 3 employees and chatgpt heo to do it have zero value to offer
Which is my point in another thread. I think Codesmith and Gauntlet benefit more by making it seem like they are partnered with the IRS for legitimacy and they probably won't make a lot of money from this.
The people who have taught five other government agencies about COBOL already have an edge, even if Codesmith or Gauntlet could do a better job... the cost of them developing the COBOL expertise to teach it at the bar they want might not even break even for them financially.
Like I said, maybe Gauntlet has the cash to burn to build that position. Codesmith doesn't appear to given the public appearance of no or few non-Future Code students there recently.