u/Gullible_Mousse_4590 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
As someone who worked at Codesmith for quite a while and thinks that they we doing a reasonably okay job even in the headwinds of the market falling around then I can confidently say this is the dumbest shit I’ve heard in a while
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I hear this about 1-2 times a week. It's frustrating to people as well how delusional their leaders are.
I spoke to Alina directly 1-1 on a call and she seems 50% like a good product leader who tricked into taking this job and is now running a company full of mouse traps, and 50% she was brainwashed by Will as well and perpetuates this bull shit messaging and narratives.
Unfortunately she's not an engineer and while she has more experience than Will did, she still doesn't have the engineering lens to look at things through and her ambition and drive is pushing Codesmith in the wrong direction.
I don't think there's a single thing they can do to save it without throwing Will's goal of an "independent bootcamp" and the rest of their community support into the trash and raising VC funding to build something new OR by getting rid of all of the staff and rebuilding something from the ground up that is actually built by industry experts.
So far Alina is hiring the same old same old cast of unemployed graduates and it's a waste of time and money.
People like me, you would have to pay $2500 an hour to hire.
And when people like me are building AI programs that will cost a fraction of Codesmith's, they have no chance with this pivot, no hope whatsoever.