Through hands-on mentorship and workshops, four high schoolers got a front-row seat to the future of health tech.
Agentic coding in software engineering teams has rapidly become table stakes. But the much bigger question is, how far along is agentic coding in vastly expanding the set of people who write code, far beyond software engineering teams? It turns out that very smart high school sophomores and juniors can do today in a few days what would have taken trained engineers weeks not too long ago.
We recently launched our first High School Immersion Program, welcoming a group of sophomores and juniors into our world of health tech. The goal of the program was to not only observe, but to build. Students had one technical mentor for direct guidance and were given a problem to solve: “Build a better provider search engine for New York, using vibe-coding.”
Through daily workshops with our Engineering, Product, and Operations teams, students learned about the entire project development life cycle from ideation to execution. The program culminated in a showcase where students presented their innovative solutions to a panel of our team members.
This does not mean that software engineers are becoming obsolete tomorrow. But coding will almost certainly go the way of the spreadsheet - once used by few, trained accountants, now by pretty much everyone in every knowledge worker job. Enterprise tech stacks are by no means ready to deal with a deluge of vibe-coded applications, but if high schoolers pumping out physician search engines in relatively little time doesn’t make you think that’s coming, you’re probably not thinking far enough ahead.
Meet the Participants
Meet Siddarth, Alya, Lina and Gabriel, four students interested in careers in technology, Computer Science, and Data Science. They were tasked to build a smarter, AI-powered provider search engine, and the results were incredible. Here’s what they had to say about the program. Their responses were edited for length and clarity.
