u/randomengineer69 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Oh yeah I know nothing about codesmith. Just saw his stuff on FrontEndMasters Edit: sorry just realized the sub
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Yeah nothing takes that away from him, it just seems he can't get his shit together as an operator based on my opinion of publicly available information.
Codesmith lost the AWS credentials and Codesmith's email and primary website were down for 3 weeks as they struggled to recover it.
He personally screen-shared evidence of pirated "web rip" copies Landman Season 1 and 2 numerous times in a public talk just a week or two ago about Open Claw.
He has intentionally screen shared his calendar numerous times in his presentations making it public info, student information numerous times.
Codesmith's website had numerous major security/PII issues that took several attempts to fix.
Codesmith student projects have leaked credentials, keys, etc... including a real charity's test Salesforce login information.
That's just a handful of explicitly public things off the top of my head that in my strictly personal opinion point out operational problems he hasn't learned from.
Like I dunno, I've been talking about this for years and tried to give the feedback and the only time he has every contacted me he yelled at me and told me he has taught 1M+ people for some reason.