Post #2246551
2026-04-26 16:11 UTC
@nick@sloan.host @hynek@mastodon.social FWIW I fall into the first camp but I still think the math supports making as much money as possible in software while it is still possible. One additional year of a salary will handily beat getting through an apprenticeship a year earlier. But, I also think that the end of knowledge work will turn most cities into Detroit, and trades work is heavily reactive to the local economy, so that career shift would also have to be paired with a huge move. Not confident I can pick a winner.
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@kyle@mister.computer 2026-04-26 16:14
@nick@sloan.host @hynek@mastodon.social To the second point: there was never a pipeline or roadmap to break. Software engineering as a career has been entirely organically grown because of durable, outsized demand compared to supply. e.g. we had interns because we literally needed more bodies, forever. If I’m wrong on my first point in my first post, the way we fix this is to actually build a roadmap and pipeline; something like formal apprenticeships.