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2026-08-03 08:44
Devs... Building in Public Is Dead!?
Where Does That Leave Us? Developers, Authority, and Sharing in the Age of AI
In 2014, if you were an ambitious developer trying to make a name for yourself, you built in the open. You wrote code publicly, you blogged your thought process, you spoke at meetups, and you shared your ideas freely. That was the culture: openness as a path to credibility. If you wanted to be seen as someone ...