Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootcamp. Am I crazy?
Yes you are. I&#x27;m a PM and researched this decision myself a few months back. Most of the &quot;well regarded&quot; bootcamps teach basic front skills (HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS). You&#x27;re going to struggle to get a job in any of the the exciting technologies you&#x27;ve listed with this skillset. It&#x27;s also not widely talked about, but I get the sense that there&#x27;s a bit of negative signal associated with these boot camps a la ITT&#x2F;University of Phoenix. I&#x27;m not saying this is justified, but I do believe the association is there.<p>I think your general premise (that management is becoming less relevant) is true, but you&#x27;re approaching the problem incorrectly.<p>If I had your goalset, I would cram hard on EdX, OpenCourseware, etc. You need a good first principles education starting with Algorithms, Data structures, etc. I&#x27;d also start to learn how to do SWE interviews, which are a whole other skill set.<p>One last note: even if you do all of the above, the best way to ensure you&#x27;re working with cool technologies is to start your own company. I work for a major SF tech company, and our ML team is two orders of magnitude smaller than our monetization team. At the end of the day, companies exist to make money and a lot of the stuff you&#x27;ve highlighted is currently speculative&#x2F;nascent. There&#x27;s just not going to be many jobs until these technologies prove their financial value.