Saturday, 9 August 2025

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AI Drives Decline in Coding Bootcamps and Junior Developer Jobs (WebProNews, 9 Aug 2025).

After more than a decade of growth, coding bootcamps and entry-level software roles are shrinking as AI tools automate routine tasks. Enrolments plummet, a major bootcamp closes, and a job seeker sends out 600 applications without success while companies look for AI‑integration skills instead

This piece sits with an uneasy truth: automation erases the shallow end first.

Losing junior rungs is not just market noise. It is mobility collapsing.

If we want AI to widen opportunity, we need new on‑ramps: paid apprenticeships with real mentoring, curricula that move from syntax to systems, and public retraining that centers safety and oversight.

The chorus says rise and rewrite. That only works if institutions rise too — companies measured on mentorship, platforms funding scholarships, governments tying incentives to first‑job creation.

The heart of coding was never keystrokes. It was the chance to begin.

🫶🏼 Unity Eagle