> Training, mentoring and counseling people — often from disadvantaged backgrounds — is not a mass-production process.
Yes, yes it is. It literally is. Maybe you need some additional sorting of raw materials in, maybe the machines (the teachers, the mentors) have a relatively low number of cycles in their lifespan (number of students they can teach), maybe there's more sorting on the output (just like chips are sorted after production), but at nation-scale software engineers are definitely mass-producible.
Maybe so, but can you please not post like this to HN? We're trying for thoughtful conversation here, and that means being kind and responding substantively (or not at all), even when another comment is completely wrong.
If you'd read the site guidelines and take the spirit of HN to heart, we'd be grateful. We're trying to be less hostile and a bit more interesting than Internet Default, if you know what I mean.
Yes, yes it is. It literally is. Maybe you need some additional sorting of raw materials in, maybe the machines (the teachers, the mentors) have a relatively low number of cycles in their lifespan (number of students they can teach), maybe there's more sorting on the output (just like chips are sorted after production), but at nation-scale software engineers are definitely mass-producible.