Meta is Brainwashing Kids

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:46 Thumbnail Analysis
1:54 Intro
2:29 Inflated Titles
4:06 Oversimplifying the Practice of Coding
6:19 Understating Mental Chops Required
7:08 Overstating Applicability to Other Fields
8:08 Weird High Tech Montage
8:54 Glorifying Office Life
13:47 Romanticizing Entrepreneurship
16:32 Putting Techies on a Pedestal

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I’m Varun, a creator, writer, musician, and tech guy based out of New York City. I make videos about working in the tech industry, my life as an Indian American, and figuring life out.

[TheBhunji]

speak for yourself, i’ve dreamt of turning unstructured data into valuable business insights since i was just a lad

[chilidem]

My old company did a hype video and they basically just grabbed all our attractive women (literally every single one) and then every minority person and threw them in the video to make it look like a place that wasn't 95% white and male like it actually was. Also, it made our break room look extremely fun and busy which it never was.

[Brentfindley]

Zuck: “our policy is to literally hire as many talented engineers as we can find”

Jesus this statement has aged like milk

[colevano]

companies see they're paying too much for software engineers -> companies tell everyone to learn to code -> oversupply of software engineers 10 years later -> companies can pay less for software engineers
really glad i took will.i.am's advice when i was in middle school /s

[rkroll]

2013 “Learn to code”

2024 “why did you do that?”

[eurixer]

Just another thing in regard to supply and demand: the motive behind big tech companies endorsing the “learn to code” movement isn’t just to create more coders to solve their problems, it’s also to devalue the skill set of programmers so that they can pay them less.

[manutebol]

My children will only have access to a posix terminal and curl. No coco melon for them!

[thetruth]

My elematary, middle, and high school years were right in the middle of the learn to code era. It's actually fascinating to see its role in oversaturating the tech market today, with record numbers of CS majors.

[ittakir]

As a programmer with 20+ years of experience, I would say, anyone can learn how to code. The question is: do you really want to do it (to program), or you just want to earn a lot of money. Those, who only want to earn a lot of money and live a fancy life, usually fail.
Learning how to program never was so easy as it is now. You don't have to buy books. There is a lot of free well-structured documentation, tools courses on Youtube. The only thing you need is a $100 laptop and internet access. That's it.
I tell it to all my friends, my relatives who have kids, so they could help them to achieve the best in their lives. But nobody follows my path.

[Etcher]

Last week, for the first time in my career of nearly 20 years, I had to reverse a linked list in Python - and I did it without looking anything up thanks to all the bullshit leetcode questions I had to study to get this job I am in. I have arrived.

[tj]

It's interesting to compare this propaganda with the current one of "with artificial intelligence we don't need anyone anymore".

[mattb]

I'm an engineer myself of 22 years and am steering my daughter away from engineering and anything related to software development. I'd say as early as I started working in 2002, that was when the drumbeat of treating engineers like garbage and assuming they were overpaid had begun here in the US. Basically further embracing Jack Welch's ideas across more and more companies at least here in the US.

[Drenmii]

"Fun fact: before computers existed, people didn't know how to think."

Sad how they picked all these people who have been far removed from programming for long enough to be completely out of touch.

[musicplaylist]

This propaganda works for kids that are already set up, fairly wealthy and so on. That being said, those kids were going to be successful no matter what they did, I mean its hard to fall too far when you're parents literally built the bedrock for you to stand on. Sadly, not all of us have this, so being more realistic with career choice is needed.

[gardnmi]

Its funny seeing each generation enter the workforce and have the sudden realization that working zucks.

[erbos]

11:56 "the cake is a lie" fits so well, i wonder if someone snuck it in there

[tj]

Using "coding" instead of "programming" is something that I think low-key devalues the profession. Software engineering is much more than coding and the emphasis on coding makes it look like carpentry or plumbing or some kind of trade. And it's nothing like that. It's engineering, just like civil engineering or electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. It needs knowledge of maths, physics, management, critical thinking, process analysis, and so on in order to make a living out of it. You don't just need to know how to code. Coding is just typing by comparison to everything you need to do your job.

[james]

Anyone can learn to code… but can you handle the ego from annoying coworkers or standups where your tech lead bodies you for not completing your task in exactly how long you estimated.

[mrotss]

no way you didnt know who gabe newell was lmao

[xavierwatson]

What really sucks is there are soo many other applications of CS but because of videos like these and those cringe "day in the life of a software engineer" video that's what every wanted to be.