AI and the Revenge of the Non-Techies

Software engineers have enjoyed decades of high pay and prestige while promoting the idea that coding could be democratized through bootcamps, creating an apparent contradiction—that programming skills were both rare enough to command premium salaries and easy enough to learn in twelve weeks. Now as AI threatens to automate coding itself, the tech industry faces ironic comeuppance, as many bootcamp graduates discovered that learning syntax didn't guarantee entry into the field, revealing that software engineering involves far more than just writing code.