Quincy Larson

Not that the mission is flawed or anything like that, but it's usually just like, yeah, I just had this one, you know, uh, officer above me who was like, made my life miserable or something like that. Right. Like, or, or like, I just, uh, you know, I didn't have any agency. They were just telling me where to go and I had to go and I had no recourse or I get court-martialed or something like that.

Not that the mission is flawed or anything like that, but it's usually just like, yeah, I just had this one, you know, uh, officer above me who was like, made my life miserable or something like that. Right. Like, or, or like, I just, uh, you know, I didn't have any agency. They were just telling me where to go and I had to go and I had no recourse or I get court-martialed or something like that.

Right. Like people don't want to live their lives where they're just being bossed around. They want to just be free. They want to have that proverbial house where they can mow their lawn and they can mind their own damn business and nobody bothers them except during tax time.

Right. Like people don't want to live their lives where they're just being bossed around. They want to just be free. They want to have that proverbial house where they can mow their lawn and they can mind their own damn business and nobody bothers them except during tax time.

That's what I really want to talk about. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Let's do it.

That's what I really want to talk about. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Let's do it.

Yeah. So I would still encourage people to start with web. And the reason why is about half of all developer jobs are web focused. You know, you hear about like mobile app development and really that is just like a mobile app skin on top of a bunch of APIs that are running on the web and stuff like that. Or you hear about like a lot of machine learning and things like that.

Yeah. So I would still encourage people to start with web. And the reason why is about half of all developer jobs are web focused. You know, you hear about like mobile app development and really that is just like a mobile app skin on top of a bunch of APIs that are running on the web and stuff like that. Or you hear about like a lot of machine learning and things like that.

And it's true that machine learning is distinct from web development. I can talk about like the big changes we're making to the curriculum, but I would say that like the skills that you learn, like, you know, data structures, algorithms, like everything you learn while you're learning to be a full stack web developer, virtually all of that is transferable.

And it's true that machine learning is distinct from web development. I can talk about like the big changes we're making to the curriculum, but I would say that like the skills that you learn, like, you know, data structures, algorithms, like everything you learn while you're learning to be a full stack web developer, virtually all of that is transferable.

Like almost everybody's going to need to create like some sort of website or some sort of mobile app or some sort of integration with an existing platform through an API. that serves whatever it is that they're creating, whether they're like creating data science insights, right? Like most data scientists have to deal with data visualization.

Like almost everybody's going to need to create like some sort of website or some sort of mobile app or some sort of integration with an existing platform through an API. that serves whatever it is that they're creating, whether they're like creating data science insights, right? Like most data scientists have to deal with data visualization.

They have to figure out how to get what's in their Jupyter notebook or wherever it is they're crunching the numbers. They need to figure out how to get that in a place where people who are making decisions based on those data can consume them and understand them, right? So their web does touch pretty much everything. And that's why I recommend starting with that.

They have to figure out how to get what's in their Jupyter notebook or wherever it is they're crunching the numbers. They need to figure out how to get that in a place where people who are making decisions based on those data can consume them and understand them, right? So their web does touch pretty much everything. And that's why I recommend starting with that.

A lot of people would say, start with, you know, systems engineering, software systems engineering, right. And learning how C works because everything's built on top of C and, you know, doing the classic computer science degree program work of.

A lot of people would say, start with, you know, systems engineering, software systems engineering, right. And learning how C works because everything's built on top of C and, you know, doing the classic computer science degree program work of.

building your own compiler, building your own operating system, building maybe your own search engine, maybe building your own LLM, doing all those things, right? And then a lot of people would say, you should just focus on machine learning because that's the future. Like everybody's going to be telling the machine in English what to do. And I've written a lot about this in my book.

building your own compiler, building your own operating system, building maybe your own search engine, maybe building your own LLM, doing all those things, right? And then a lot of people would say, you should just focus on machine learning because that's the future. Like everybody's going to be telling the machine in English what to do. And I've written a lot about this in my book.

And I do believe that in the future, programming will consist of talking in natural language, highly structured natural language to a computer the way that people on Star Trek talk to the computer and the computer builds things on the holodeck and does things like that. But that still requires knowledge of the different layers of abstraction below.

And I do believe that in the future, programming will consist of talking in natural language, highly structured natural language to a computer the way that people on Star Trek talk to the computer and the computer builds things on the holodeck and does things like that. But that still requires knowledge of the different layers of abstraction below.