<story><title>We Don&apos;t Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage</title><url>https://resumeskills.us/talent/shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>Yup.  And they&amp;#x27;re missing the point that this isn&amp;#x27;t 1985 anymore.  A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB.  Or at least, JavaScript and similar languages make programming much, much easier (and hence the barrier to entry much easier).&lt;p&gt;As coding difficulty drops, and supply increases, the net effect will be a much higher demand for jobs than supply.  And that&amp;#x27;s exactly where big tech wants it to be.&lt;p&gt;edit:  here comes the javascript developer downvotes.</text></item><item><author>_57jb</author><text>I think you are making the mistake that enterprises who employ thousands of developers are looking for quality over butts in seats.</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>Trying to teach “everyone” to code is like teaching everyone to draw in high school art classes. It gives a lot of people exposure to what it means to code&amp;#x2F;draw, the fundamental steps of coding&amp;#x2F;drawing but doesn’t increase the supply of coders&amp;#x2F;artists in the world to the point where the skilled artists&amp;#x2F;programmers become commonplace.</text></item><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>I feel like a broken record, but I&amp;#x27;m going to say it anyways.&lt;p&gt;There is NOT a shortage of software developers.  That myth was developed by big tech, and pushed all the way up the ladder, to the top of government.  The goal?  Reduce labor costs.&lt;p&gt;Big tech has always been 1 step ahead of the employee, just like coal, and metal working was.  They saw the huge need for developers and realized their costs would increase unless they actively pursued ways to prevent that from happening.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s how you get organizations like code.org.  That&amp;#x27;s how you get President Obama on the big screen, telling everyone to learn to code.  That&amp;#x27;s how you get a GREAT job, and make it BLUE COLLAR.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seattle_spring</author><text>&amp;gt; A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB&lt;p&gt;I actually love it when a developer says something like this, because it tells me way more than even 2 full days of pairing or interviewing could: They know absolutely nothing about software at scale, and are probably extremely arrogant to boot.</text></comment>
<story><title>We Don&apos;t Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage</title><url>https://resumeskills.us/talent/shortage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>Yup.  And they&amp;#x27;re missing the point that this isn&amp;#x27;t 1985 anymore.  A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB.  Or at least, JavaScript and similar languages make programming much, much easier (and hence the barrier to entry much easier).&lt;p&gt;As coding difficulty drops, and supply increases, the net effect will be a much higher demand for jobs than supply.  And that&amp;#x27;s exactly where big tech wants it to be.&lt;p&gt;edit:  here comes the javascript developer downvotes.</text></item><item><author>_57jb</author><text>I think you are making the mistake that enterprises who employ thousands of developers are looking for quality over butts in seats.</text></item><item><author>zaroth</author><text>Trying to teach “everyone” to code is like teaching everyone to draw in high school art classes. It gives a lot of people exposure to what it means to code&amp;#x2F;draw, the fundamental steps of coding&amp;#x2F;drawing but doesn’t increase the supply of coders&amp;#x2F;artists in the world to the point where the skilled artists&amp;#x2F;programmers become commonplace.</text></item><item><author>rubicon33</author><text>I feel like a broken record, but I&amp;#x27;m going to say it anyways.&lt;p&gt;There is NOT a shortage of software developers.  That myth was developed by big tech, and pushed all the way up the ladder, to the top of government.  The goal?  Reduce labor costs.&lt;p&gt;Big tech has always been 1 step ahead of the employee, just like coal, and metal working was.  They saw the huge need for developers and realized their costs would increase unless they actively pursued ways to prevent that from happening.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s how you get organizations like code.org.  That&amp;#x27;s how you get President Obama on the big screen, telling everyone to learn to code.  That&amp;#x27;s how you get a GREAT job, and make it BLUE COLLAR.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antt</author><text>&amp;gt;Yup. And they&amp;#x27;re missing the point that this isn&amp;#x27;t 1985 anymore. A high school student with a week of JavaScript and HTML could write AirBnB.&lt;p&gt;Sorry is this a joke? Because I&amp;#x27;m missing it.</text></comment>