Hackers' Pub

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`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
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deech @deech@mastodon.social

2/24/2026, 1:23:58 PM

Public

I don't think we talk enough about how much the huge wave of devs from 2010's coding bootcamps led to the current situation.

I was all for them because it seemed like a great way to infuse some diversity and new perspectives into a moribund industry.

Instead it became an opportunity to deskill. I personally saw mentoring & teaching techniques for abstraction & design cast aside in favor of en masse copy paste.

Now copy paste has been automated and everyone's losing their minds. Like, yeah?

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