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I said from the very start that teaching "everyone to code" was a stupid idea and the only goal was for big companies that invested into it to try to drive down wages in the tech industry.

Archive: https://archive.today/27sHw

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>The geek answer (bad faith or blindness): “If only everyone learned to code, then society would be fairer.” The activist answer: Code is part of the landscape, but culture, governance, and lived practice matter more. We don’t escape domination by teaching more people to type commands, we escape by changing what we do together with the tools. Why “teach everyone to code” has become a dead-end slogan – it’s been tried, it’s been funded, and yet it hasn’t shifted power one bit. If anything, it’s reinforced the tech priesthood instead of breaking it.

I said from the very start that teaching "everyone to code" was a stupid idea and the only goal was for big companies that invested into it to try to drive down wages in the tech industry. Archive: https://archive.today/27sHw From the post: >>The geek answer (bad faith or blindness): “If only everyone learned to code, then society would be fairer.” The activist answer: Code is part of the landscape, but culture, governance, and lived practice matter more. We don’t escape domination by teaching more people to type commands, we escape by changing what we do together with the tools. Why “teach everyone to code” has become a dead-end slogan – it’s been tried, it’s been funded, and yet it hasn’t shifted power one bit. If anything, it’s reinforced the tech priesthood instead of breaking it.
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The most recently release of Debian was LITERALLY stalled for release, because a bunch of kid fucking troons screeched about "troublesome programing language" in some of the packages.

So. Not everyone should code. Especially mentally ill people.

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Yeah, its a load of shit. Those people should be banned from all maintainer groups.

Them and their stupid fucking "new speak".

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Not everyone is capable of writing good code. Only high IQ people produce anything of value. Look at the pajeet problem, throw 10 indian coders at a problem and it likely won’t be solved without a lot of handholding by an engineer who knows what’s he’s doing and tells them specifically every step of the way what to do, but one gifted guy can get it done with very little guidance.

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This has been my experience too. I have worked with some jeets and they usually can (barely) do anything without extremely strict instructions and even then they often fuck up.

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Everybody should learn to code is one of the most retarded concepts in modern times.

To be a good programmer, you need what amounts to an innate ability to think in an abstract structured way. This is not taught in any school. It cannot be taught. People who have this skill often find programming to be enjoyable. People who do not have this skill will never be good programmers and will likely find programming to be confusing and frustrating.

The entire education system is pretty fucked up. People have innate abilities, whether in technical or intellectual skills like programming, math or engineering, or in music, language, sports, etc. Education should be about discovering what you are innately predisposed to and practicing that to the benefit of a coherent society. Instead, it is assumed (falsely) that everyone can learn to do everything equally well. A failing that follows from the false premise of tabula rasa that permeates leftist thinking of educators.