Engineers wax nostalgic for an open web: blogs, code reviews, and free pizza Fridays
vboykis · x · 2026-09-11
Engineer vboykis kicks off a nostalgia thread about the pre-AI era of tech culture: blogs written by and for humans, senior knowledge passed through code reviews, a mostly paywall-free NYT, laptop stickers, Roman-mythology service names, Python vs Ruby debates, free pizza Fridays, and a time when 'AI' just meant scikit-learn. A snapshot of how industry culture has shifted.
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