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derry @midwest.social

1w ago

Hackathon King of San Francisco

Behind the scenes with the weed-smoking, Labubu-loving, hackathon king of SF

Rene Turcios has attended over 200 hackathons in two years — and he doesn’t even know how to code.

Answer: he uses AI.

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Thought this was The Onion at first
so what's the deal he goes there for a weekend, vibes a Web page and gets out?
- Yeah they're acting like HTML is difficult to code...
- Not sure if he lives there ( he lives in a "Tenderloin" apartment whatever that this) or not. Sounds like he attends hackathons and works on contracts from companies to do projects that "would take weeks" for engineering teams to complete. He supposedly completed them in hours. I do wonder if they review "his code" or not though.
  
  I'm going to guess they're companies without software expertise in house, so nobody to review the code anyway.
  If companies continue hiring people like this, it's only a matter of time before the exploits roll out.
  
  I think tenderloin is a neighborhood in sanfrancisco or metro area
What a fucking poser

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