u/swekage wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
1. haha, so I would say Austen is actually more technical than his tweets make him seem. He might not be coding all the time but he understands everything at a high level at least, like I remember him talking to someone about the security of firebase's cloud functions when we wer
u/michaelnovati replied ·
He has never written production code at a top tier company so I don't consider him qualified. But I think he's smart enough to know a little bit about everything and pick up concepts for sure.
He's certainly sharp... in their lawsuit with Lambda Labs, Lambda School bought this company in Florida called Red Lambda that had a Lambda trademark prior to Lambda Labs to defend themselves, and I really think Austen has some kind of grit and hustle that is unmatched (and I mean this in an objective way, not saying if that's good or bad).
The biggest mistake people make is not believing people can change or grow, so I don't hold anything in Austen's past against him at all and I can do that while also feeling bad for and wanting to support anyone who feels like they were mislead by Lambda School... it can be both haha.
Anyways, I'm really curious. Like the shift from promoting diversity to 'let's extra a super smart interesting group of high IQ people' - which judging purely from photos, seem to be a very male dominant bunch - is certainly super fascinating to me and again without judging good or bad, it's just a unique experiment to learn from!