Another one bites the dust at Codesmith

The key thing here is "it" YOU changed your life. YOU decided to sign up and put in the work to pass the entrance interviews. YOU showed up 13 hours a day. YOU hustled hard on your narratives to get past resume filtering. YOU passed interviews. What did Codesmith do? 1. accountability 2. support 3. building self confidence 4. helping tell your narrative to get past screens 5. basic programming education 6. access to a network of alumni I can see it getting blurry when instead of feeling like "Codesmith supported me in changing my life" the feeling tilts towards "Codesmith changed my life". Cults (speaking generally from watching over 200 hours of cult documentaries) prey on people with low self confidence who will credit "it" with the positive impact the cult brings because that is easily turned into devotion and exploiting a need to "pay it back"). Things like free labor, donations, or as a soldier defending "the community".