that was indeed the best advice circa 1990 to 2010. unfortunately, the flood of people entering that field has saturated the market, both abroad and domestically.
I assume that it's not just a game of quantity, but also quality. When it's just nerds and computer enthusiasts entering a field, the quality is quite high, and there's intrinsic motivation. When a flood of people comes in for the high pay, that diminishes a lot.
This tracks with my experience 15 years ago. There were kids who clearly didn't belong there but managed to cheat or otherwise scrape their way over the finish line who had no business in the field. I'd imagine it's a lot worse now.
I graduated university about 10 years ago. One of my degrees was math. It wasn't even that the kids cheated. It's that once they passed through the so-called filter courses like Calculus 2, it was nearly impossible to fail. Even if the courses were difficult, a combination of making the exams easier and grading very leniently made sure all the idiots passed. One of the reasons when I came home with my diploma I told my parents they could have it lmao.
It is depressing when I see how unimpressed people are. They claim to be impressed by every new thing when it comes, like AI recently but you show this very elegant solution that makes things easier for a lot of coworkers and they just don't care. You can make this extremely cool solution and then make it implementable for various clients and they look at it like it is nothing.
I assume that it's not just a game of quantity, but also quality. When it's just nerds and computer enthusiasts entering a field, the quality is quite high, and there's intrinsic motivation. When a flood of people comes in for the high pay, that diminishes a lot.
Quality hasn't mattered in software for a long time.
If you can get code 60% functional from pajeets who cost 15% as much as an American, companies take that trade every time.
...and we wonder why software is getting worse and worse.
This is how the world works now. Lying and taking advantage of people is what gets you ahead.
This tracks with my experience 15 years ago. There were kids who clearly didn't belong there but managed to cheat or otherwise scrape their way over the finish line who had no business in the field. I'd imagine it's a lot worse now.
I graduated university about 10 years ago. One of my degrees was math. It wasn't even that the kids cheated. It's that once they passed through the so-called filter courses like Calculus 2, it was nearly impossible to fail. Even if the courses were difficult, a combination of making the exams easier and grading very leniently made sure all the idiots passed. One of the reasons when I came home with my diploma I told my parents they could have it lmao.
It is depressing when I see how unimpressed people are. They claim to be impressed by every new thing when it comes, like AI recently but you show this very elegant solution that makes things easier for a lot of coworkers and they just don't care. You can make this extremely cool solution and then make it implementable for various clients and they look at it like it is nothing.