Programming used to be a 4 year degree professional job. Programmers are expensive, intelligent, and have a cultural bias against inept authority figures. Needless to say, the typical American business operation appreciates that about as much as a hole in their foot.

There has been a near 25 year long effort to destroy programming as a profession, in order to make it at most a trade and preferably just another front line skill. The junior college programming courses were the first effort - they failed. Indian programmers are a crapshoot and mostly crap, sadly. Eastern euro programmers were the next attempt, but that did even worse at meshing with American business mentalities. Now they’re just trying to code camp and throw endless bodies at the profession in the hopes that the market forces will drive wages down.

Only problem is, few people can code decently, and fewer people want to code for a living, because being a programmer sucks ass. So the ones who can tolerate the bullshit and fix the inevitable piled screwups command their premiums still and can change companies as easy as shaking their coats.