Behind the scenes with the weed-smoking, Labubu-loving, hackathon king of SF
sfstandard.com
Rene Turcios has attended over 200 hackathons in two years — and he doesn’t even know how to code.

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

Answer: he uses AI.

  • derry@midwest.socialOPEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      12 days ago

      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.