u/CI-AI wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I disagree on what you said about Codesmith ignoring things in public. I’m an alumni, so I’m not on the internal team. That said, I haven’t noticed any such talk about everything positive externally. The reason I have taken an interest in this sub specifically is because I’ve see
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100% I literally recommended OP consider Codesmith and was discussing in private 30 mins ago.
The ignore strategy is because I mean this: I've talked to the founders of numerous other programs on here and have professional open conversations with them, and not a single leader at Codesmith has contacted me for 1.8 years now of me being the same old person on here every day.
Instead, the CEO has badmouthed me in internal all hands, the outcomes advisor has texted someone telling them Formation's a scam and he'll give them all he needs. An alumni made very inappropriate comments about me in an alumni Slack that were screenshotted to me. And all this kind of BS in private and the public response isn't "he is dark depraved person whose sole mission in life is to take down the great thing \[we\] have built" (this was quoted to me by a student but I don't know if they quoted it or paraphrased) but it's a coordinated set of positive comments. That outcomes advisor also has a group of alumni that are asked to comment on Reddit.
Anyways, I'm not saying this to make a negative comment because as you said, there are hundred and hundreds of amazing humans that Codesmith has been a tremendously positive force in helping happen, but I do note it as a lack of leadership and a piece in the puzzle of understanding it as a whole.