This is also how I feel watching discussions of how to contribute to Lemmy and what needs doing, when I previously thought I was a halfway competent web dev.
i’ve begun to trust anyone with an anime pfp which may be a problem
really? uwu🥰
I work with a whole team of wjhbr.
😂😂😂
I know all of these characters from my workplace, and I am, the first guy “you”. So true.
I feel like I’ve been specifically called out by the “borderline lethal amounts of adderall” bit, especially since it’s listed for Hackerman.
I’m actually below average, and the competition’s experience and skill is making me depressed
You don’t need to worry about your skill compared to other people. Just learn at your own pace and have fun with it! There will be a moment when stuff starts to click.
Plus code competitions are a completely different beast compared to regular coding. A lot of those are just practice and memorization more than anything
Haha, I feel like I’ve been each and every one of those stereotypes at some point in my life :D
Hackathons have become VC pitch-a-thons in my region though. So boring. Most teams don’t even code, they just use demo software to make an interactive video of what their code might do. Or they just bring in their company’s product and pretend they wrote it just then.
Often it’s not even a real competition. The VC judges just have an investment they want to get publicity for. So they win the ‘competition’ no matter what, even if it’s embarrassingly bad. Sometimes the actual competition doesn’t even happen in this case. That happened to a colleague last month.
I stopped going to these things when they stopped being about creativity and technology.
I hope that in other parts of the world they are a more positive experience! Some of the ones I went to 10+ years ago were really fun!
