Did the Cult of the Tech Job trick you too? | It's Been A Minute
February 11, 2026
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as posted by the channelLearn to code, they said! And then the layoffs started happening...
The tech industry is hemorrhaging jobs. According to one estimate, there have been over 700,000 tech workers laid off since 2022. But there was once a time when “learn to code” was the advice de rigueur for laidoff workers, and a lot of resources went into teaching kids computer science. So if a cushy position in tech isn’t a “good” job anymore… what is? Brittany discusses this with Rya Jetha () , tech culture reporter for the San Francisco Standard, and Natasha Singer, () technology reporter for The New York Times and author of the upcoming book Coding KidsBig Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools.
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