A decade after the learn-to-code boom, coding itself has lost much of its value
signulll · x · 2026-09-04
signulll notes the reversal: just over a decade ago there was an entire startup category for teaching people to code — bootcamps, online courses — with floods of students entering CS chasing salaries. Less than 10 years later, writing code itself has become dramatically less valuable. The pace of progress is ridiculous.
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