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Rene Turcios has attended over 200 hackathons in two years — and he doesn’t even know how to code.

Answer: he uses AI.

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[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Thought this was The Onion at first

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

so what's the deal he goes there for a weekend, vibes a Web page and gets out?

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah they're acting like HTML is difficult to code...

[–] derry@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not sure if he lives there ( he lives in a "Tenderloin" apartment whatever that this) or not. Sounds like he attends hackathons and works on contracts from companies to do projects that "would take weeks" for engineering teams to complete. He supposedly completed them in hours. I do wonder if they review "his code" or not though.

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'm going to guess they're companies without software expertise in house, so nobody to review the code anyway.

If companies continue hiring people like this, it's only a matter of time before the exploits roll out.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think tenderloin is a neighborhood in sanfrancisco or metro area

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago

What a fucking poser