Isn't an alternative explanation that bootcamp actually makes a person hot stuff, despite not teaching much?
For example maybe if you went to bootcamp, you (crimsonalucard) would be hot stuff when you came out (even if you've been programming for 20 years), due to exposure to all the external services you'll be able to glue together.
The fact that your glue code will have runtime O(1) (a single call) instead of O(n^n), but only for up to 4, as the poor kids do something like have four different if statements for 1 to 4, and each one is a nested for loop, and over 4 it silently does nothing, is less relevant than the exposure to the API's at all.
In other words, maybe terrible programmers can be hot stuff writing the latest glue code - even if it's brittle and barely works.
With all the services huge companies are exposing, this wouldn't surprise me.
Under that definition, anyone on the face of the earth can be "hot stuff." You don't even need to go to bootcamp. Just read some online tutorials, make a website. Done. You're just calling the average person "hot stuff."
In my opinion, you're only hot when you know how to do something that is rare, very hard to learn and in demand.
I see a difference between a web site and a web site that exposes a service that on the backend connects API's of two different companies that do the heavy lifting.
There is a difference. But the difference is trivial. Making a backend or a frontend that connects to N amount of API's isn't impressive at all. Any fool can learn this concept.
In fact that's all a modern website is. The old way involved servers rendering pages. Now The frontend interfaces with an API. Efficiency at the cost of complexity.
You want to know what's impressive? Writing a compiler. Writing an OS. Nothing is simpler than interfacing with an API.
If writing glue code is your job and you're getting paid a lot of money to do this stuff then count your lucky stars because truly anyone can do that job.
