Saswato R. Das: Latest Articles, Analysis and Profile
Saswato R. Das is a science and technology writer. He is a physicist by training and lives in New York City.
Saswato R. Das is a science and technology writer. He is a physicist by training and lives in New York City.
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As AI eliminates entry-level software engineering roles, coding boot camps are on decline
Jonathan Kim, a would-be US software engineer, began his job search over 50 weeks ago, tracking his efforts on a spreadsheet. He applied for more than 600 software engineering jobs. Six companies replied. Two gave him a technical screening. None have made him an offer. That was not the plan when Kim paid nearly US$20,000 in 2023 for an intensive part-time coding boot camp he thought would equip him to land a software engineering job. 'They sold a fake dream of a great job market,' said Kim, 29, who works at his uncle's ice cream shop in Los Angeles while continuing his job search. Without a college degree, he believes his chances are low, but boosts his résumé by contributing to open-source software projects. 'I see so much doom and gloom throughout everything,' he said. 'It's hard to stay positive.' Kim decided to attend the coding boot camp just as artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT were taking off. By the time he graduated in 2024, AI – which started off with simple party tricks like writing poems – was on its way to reshaping the economy, with perhaps its most significant impact in coding. It began eliminating the kind of entry-level developer roles that boot camps have traditionally filled, in what has been dubbed one of the fastest job shifts in any profession ever.
South China Morning Post
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Saswato R. Das: Latest Articles, Analysis and Profile
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South China Morning Post
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- South China Morning Post
Going after Lip-Bu Tan, Malaysian-American CEO of Intel, is just the beginning
Want to be a CEO in America? Try not to look too Chinese or have a name that sounds Chinese. Lip-Bu Tan, the new chief executive of chipmaking giant Intel, finds to his dismay that out of nowhere, top United States politicians up to President Donald Trump have declared him a threat to national security. Trump tweeted last week on his Truth Social platform: 'The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem.' Immediately? Why the urgency? The president didn't say. What evidence is there that Tan was such a threat to America? Trump didn't present any. It appears that he was paraphrasing Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who earlier wrote to Intel's board chair expressing 'concern about the security and integrity of Intel's operations' and Tan's ties to China. Tan is Malaysian, studied in Singapore and received his degrees from MIT. He has long been a US citizen. Cotton accused him of having extensive investments in China. Well, name me a Wall Street or Silicon Valley titan in the past quarter of a century who didn't have investment or business in China. Elon Musk? Apple? BlackRock? You may remember Cotton's infamous grilling of TikTok's CEO Chew Shou Zi during a Senate hearing in February last year. Many people described his antics as racist. 'Senator, I'm Singaporean,' Chew pleaded, but Cotton kept asking whether he was a Chinese national, and a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and then demanded to examine his passport for proof of citizenship. With Tan, though, the more serious charge Cotton has levelled is that Cadence Design Systems – a San Jose-based firm that Tan headed between 2009 and 2021 – last month agreed to pay US$140 million to resolve charges that it violated export controls by selling chip design products to China's National University of Defence Technology with ties to, as the name suggests, the Chinese military.
