Internmaxxing
Somebody on your timeline this week called intern code "API slop." Confident. A little smug. Probably got a few hundred likes.
It's bullshit.
I run a cohort. About half my team is interns right now. I gave them equity options ahead of schedule because I'm not interested in pretending the work is junior when it isn't. The projects shipping out of that group are robust. Production worthy. The kind of thing that would have taken a "senior" three years and a wiki page full of excuses a decade ago.
That's not a feel-good story. That's the new baseline.
