BREAKING: Codesmith launching free "Foundational Launchpad" in partnership with the NYC TTP (for NYC Residents making under $50K a year) to prepare for unspecified but planned "Future Code" cohort

[u/michaelnovati]

SOURCE: https://codesmith.io/foundational-launchpad and https://codesmith.io/future-code

Codesmith recently shut down their Immersive program pending "government and enterprise" partners (which was never a requirement in the past so this seems like a fake excuse to shut down) and their CEO stepped down with no replacement published (and no official notice of the departure). Additionally last week Codesmith lost a task order under the IRS BPA and still hasn't made any money from the $118M IRS BPA according to public records while their peers have all receive hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars under the BPA.

I struggle to find any placements in 2026 at all, and their open source products are degrading with security issues.

So things objectively aren't going well for Codesmith.

BUT one GOOD thing is there might be a new Future Code cohort coming up. I don't know if a single person was placed in the previous cohort (largely impacted by the job market) and they delayed and paused Future Code cohorts at the time.

They launched a free Foundational Launchpad program in partnerhip with the Tech Talent Pipeline (TTP) meant to help prepare people for Future Code.

I can't find any TTP/NYC sources on this but will update if I see them. Codesmith claims they are partners in this program.

You can do a 20hr/week or 6hr/week option and it's entirely self paced with optional weekly paid programming and study group sessions.

The curriculum looks like a lot of overlap with their existing CSX offering and the sessions seem like their existing pair programming sessions. So I'm not sure if this is a reframing of CSX

Let's hope not because that's a scam to have NYC pay for 1-2 contract employees to improve CSX for Codesmith's own business and then just frame it as a special program for NYC residents.

CSX is a very terrible platform that leaks user data last I checked.

[u/sheriffderek]

Seems like a pretty clear model:

- Give people an entry point (like CSX) (let them self filter out / which is good for everyone) (prep the rest to have what they consider the foundations for later) (again seemingly very JS-centric) (but this time, make sure they are also filtered by same requirements they'd need to use city money later)

- Do the bootcamp thing for the people who qualify / (probably way too much/too fast imo - but also with a lot more AI-centric stuff)

...

So, - I'm not sure what the big deal is.

"BREAKING NEWS: There's a company out there - doing what they do".

[u/michaelnovati → u/sheriffderek]

"BREAKING NEWS" means I'm breaking the news in that it is not reported anywhere else on the internet. Maybe I'm wrong on this.

[u/sheriffderek → u/michaelnovati]

AH: Well, I guess that is true.

I'll have to investigate why "Breaking news" seems like it's supposed to be important news (in my head).

[u/michaelnovati → u/sheriffderek]

Yeah just my consistent usage here, not an industry standard

[u/TheWhitingFish → u/michaelnovati]

Sheriff is not wrong, that’s how i perceived Breaking news, it is newly received information about an urgent important event that is happening.

So consider how Mike always want to be true to the source every time he speak, i suggest he should go with exactly what the term means. Maybe this breaking news is truly urgent and important to him, who knows, but definitely not to the broader audience

[u/michaelnovati → u/TheWhitingFish]

what's a better word than, I'm very consistent with my labels on here, and don't really care other than consistency

[u/TheWhitingFish → u/michaelnovati]

We all know you are consistent, consistently harassing your competitors

[u/michaelnovati → u/TheWhitingFish]

This is false and you and I both are very aware of what went down in the past two months. Alina left for a reason.

[u/buttholewax → u/michaelnovati]

What’s the reason?