Mocking the vibe-coding teen hire fantasy: 17-year-olds recruited by OpenAI from small-town China
_vztu · x · 2026-10-22
- Quoting a Feynman line about learning what interests you in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original ways, the author sarcastically mocks the viral narrative that a 17-year-old high-school grad can vibe-code a few GitHub repos from a small town and get hired by OpenAI or Anthropic in San Francisco.
- The post is a jab at inflated Chinese self-media success stories around big labs recruiting teenage programmers.
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