&gt; <i>I meet a lot of older developers who harp on about assembly and coding mainframes [...] but they got fuck all done in a day.</i><p>Except for making a JS engine that is fast enough to run your framework dujour.<p>All the leverage in high-level coding comes from the stability of the underlying layers.  Even though those lower levels see less churn, we absolutely need people to maintain them, and these dev bootcamps certainly aren&#x27;t churning out candidates who fit the bill.