I also don't think these front end influencers are even coding very much. Like if you hired them on a job on a serious team, they would probably come off like a junior engineer
I get that same vibe. It seems like their intent is to "wow" others into thinking how easy it is to become a developer and build an app with X framework. When in reality they just built a todo app that barely resembles how real software is built.
Yeah, it seems sort of obvious in its own way. People like “the primagen” on YouTube are really entertainers first and educators second. The pitch is something like “I’ll pretend to teach you something, and you’ll pretend to learn. But actually I’ll just entertain you by being a goofball for 20 minutes. You don’t have to do any work, and afterwards you can walk away pretending like you learned something”.
I suspect in his case he might actively dumb down his skill level for the stream, so he doesn’t scare away the junior devs.
The #1 tell is that all their projects are solo.
Working on a team,
working with peers,
building software systems the live in production for years,
through change and expansion,
all seem beyond the typical influencer.
