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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He can fake gaming kinda-sorta, he can fake admirers kinda-sorta... Why could he kinda-sorta fake programming skills?

He's the ultimate fake

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The thing is that this kind of thing works for people who don't know better. I have spoken to dudes who like the abstract notion of Musk being a gamer, probably because it wasn't apparent to them that his Path of Exile account was so obviously boosted. Similarly, a script-kiddie can seem like a skilled programmer to people who have little knowledge of programming