An aside to this, is that I think the skill(s) of software development have been being devalued over the last decade e.g. “learn to code” programs/bootcamps, learning a language is pointless without the experience to go with it, it just creates a nimeity of inexperienced juniors; the advent of LLM’s means many now can get the “code” for various ideas which again lowers the perception of the worth of hiring a professional.
Then there are the mass layoffs by big tech companies who want to save money (many of whom are rehiring the sames roles at lower pay bands).
I have been a career software developer for about 12 years, and in IT another 10 before that (also programming for most of my life l, started with Basic on a Sinclair Spectrum ZX 48k I got for Xmas one year), I rarely consider a language or framework I haven’t used before to be a barrier, as those are just tools; so those “Learn Python in 12 weeks and get a coding job at the end” programs really irk me.
“Coding” in general feels derogatory, as the writing of the code itself is only a small bit of the work, alot of it is probably staring at the screen/into space and thinking, plus making and drinking coffee.
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Apologies for the rant, I’d put it on stack overflow, but it’s a ghost town over there since ChatGPT steamrolled in 