Is that remark necessary?

Honestly, the classicist/entitled bullshit about what we (technologists) do is completely unearned. What most of us do isn’t special and the gate-keeping many people in this industry do to prevent others from entering this industry (and I’m guilty of it too at times) is unearned.

I’m glad Amazon is doing things like this. I’m glad programs are encouraging coal miners to learn a new skill.

Programming wasn’t always seen as white collar work.