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People are going to in-person events. The difference is now everyone and their grandmother just learned to code and there's a shitton of noise in tech meetups.
by dheera 1y ago
People are going to in-person events. The difference is now everyone and their grandmother just learned to code and there's a shitton of noise in tech meetups.
The only in-person events worth going to are those that have some kind of a filter on attendance, e.g. ones friends, investors, or employers invite you to.
I'm not interested in your Arduino project that detects pigeons with AlexNet.
- dangus 1y agoThis seems like BS gatekeeper logic. You think that nobody “just learned to code” in the conferences of old? How do you expect people to get better at their craft if you want to lock them out of the conversation?
- dheera 1y ago> How do you expect people to get better at their craft Reality check: I don't. Educating the masses for free is not my duty and I don't have space and time for that. If I host a tech-related event it's for a group of people I care about, including myself, to mutually benefit from each other.
- dangus 1y agoIn this case you’re just talking about a completely unrelated and irrelevant subject. This article and discussion isn’t about private gatherings hosted by you.
- Seattle3503 1y agoThat's it, I'm removing you from my Thanksgiving guest list!
- dheera 1y agoMy point is that the public gatherings have become noise, and private gatherings have become where people are increasingly going, out of necessity. There used to be a point in time ~15 years ago when the public gatherings were mostly high-quality talent of highly motivated people and you were sort of connected with all such people in your city. There are a lot of low-motivation "hey I just learned to code 5 lines of Python with ChatGPT and therefore I should get attention" type people now.
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- dangus 1y agoI think that it’s more likely that your perspective has changed in the last ~15 years rather than the makeup of conference attendees changing. I.e. I think it’s more likely that you’re noticing the inexperience of others because you yourself have gained experience. At some point in your life you yourself were the “hey I just learned to code 5 lines of python” person at those conferences. As another analogy, someone driving on the highway can’t complain about the traffic, they are traffic.