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Everything now has to be fully vetted before trying it as opposed to making something weird and quirky. Sad! I miss those days.

I'd generally agree, but 3D printer mentioned in the blog post is probably one thing that I'd wish to have back then.

Nah things were already going to shit then. Sure it kept getting worse, but that was well on the downslope.

Tech is being run by ignorant financiers and college dropouts who don't understand institutional knowledge or technology.

It was hackers building crazy stuff (Steve Woz' book detailed how he built one of the company's first computers, and he knew what every logic gate in it did) and then some people realized there's money to be made...

Any "founders" out there showing off their vibe-coded SaaS with money from their FAANG career that they got after finishing the bootcamp course? (I mock, as the inner voice asks "You had the talent, why aren't you in the 2 commas club?")