Hackathon culture is different than it was, but that doesn't mean it's worse for the average person. It could be that "idea guys" do the important hackathon culture work better. Highly innovative people are a little off the beaten path, but describing them as a cultural corrupting force is moving the community backwards.
How does the hackathon culture compare to the old school demoscene? My impression is that it was pretty hard to contribute to making demos without actually having some pretty deep expertise in one of the several disciplines required?
He sells worthless Labubus that are pitched on Twitch to children. He smokes weed. He managed to get this advertisement article into a "newspaper" that lies about vibe coding.
He could get a position in the Trump administration!
King of hackathons doesn’t know how to code. Got it.
Good encapsulation of how corrupted hackathon culture has become.
Basically just “idea guys” have gotten great at LARPing and hijacked the scene.
That's always been the case with the Silicon Valley meetup non-technical, wantrepreneur posers though.
Hackathon culture is different than it was, but that doesn't mean it's worse for the average person. It could be that "idea guys" do the important hackathon culture work better. Highly innovative people are a little off the beaten path, but describing them as a cultural corrupting force is moving the community backwards.
Surest sign we are in a bubble.
Cue the strip cub scene from the big short.
How does the hackathon culture compare to the old school demoscene? My impression is that it was pretty hard to contribute to making demos without actually having some pretty deep expertise in one of the several disciplines required?
Dupe, sensationalized headline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480418
You meet all sorts of characters in SF. I didn't think I'd ever see this guy again.
Seeing Rene headlining a celebratory blog post makes me want to vent, but this probably isn't the appropriate space.
I have stories to tell, though.
He sells worthless Labubus that are pitched on Twitch to children. He smokes weed. He managed to get this advertisement article into a "newspaper" that lies about vibe coding.
He could get a position in the Trump administration!
I don't know that he engages in enough viciousness signalling.
Grifters gonna grift.
[assumptions included for effect]
One of the greatest grifters of all time is your president. "grifting" succeeds.
It may not be required, but it succeeds. So people do it.
These people are often called "salesmen" or "business development managers", but they sell the dream all the same.
One of these things is not like the others…