[ZinZirconium]

> They stream themselves coding at the same time each week without fail.

Nope. Anybody who streams themselves coding is not a real coder. Coding is not rapid fire typing memorized boilerplate code to techno background music. Real life is not Mr Robot. When they do it at the same time each week that's the reddest of red flags that they're performing an act. It's all staged. As staged as professional wrestling is kayfabe.

Real coding doesn't happen on a strict schedule. There's research, design, and testing to be done and mistakes to be made and corrected. Typing out the code is the least important part of coding and by far the least interesting. But real work doesn't hold the attention of techbro posers long enough to sell ads now does it.

[duiker101]

No. This is gatekeeping at it's finest. You can say that while they stream they are working on their social media presence more than the codebase, but streaming per-se doesn't stop them from being "real coders".

Everyone codes however they want. What works for you might be different for someone else. And wanting to do it while interacting with an audience or streaming themselves creating something they already know how to do are all completely fine things.

[ZinZirconium]

Yes. It's gatekeeping borne of jealousy. Keep introverted nerds in tech. Extroverted marketeers took our technology and perverted it into social media.

Woz said of his time building blue boxes purely motivated by intellectual curiosity:

> I was so pure. Now I realize others were not as pure, they were just trying to make money. But then I thought we were all pure.

Tech is so impure today it reeks. Bring back the hackers who build things for fun. Bring back the nerds who don't care to make money.

[Haydos585x2]

I stream myself writing code on roughly the same schedule once a week and I certainly disagree with what you're saying here. One of the reasons people like to watch streams is for the problem solving aspect and seeing how someone else researches then solves a problem, that might involve a person going to a documentation site, reading Stack Overflow or just playing around with something. As long as the audience is still engaged and the streamer is thinking out loud then the audience will enjoy it. The streamer might research things before hand or broadly think of a solution to something but I don't think that makes it any more staged than someone on a live TV segment thinking what they're going to say.

[pedrosorio]

> Real coding doesn't happen on a strict schedule. There's research, design, and testing to be done and mistakes to be made and corrected.

I’ve seen streamers do exactly this (while interacting with their audience through chat).

Why did you interpret “stream themselves coding” as “typing code flawlessly on stream”?

[vimy]

https://youtu.be/yIrFIOx4VP8 You clearly haven’t seen Geohot in action yet.