Framework-creator Memes

The creator of FastAPI couldn't even qualify for a FastAPI job because some recruiter copy-pasted "4+ years experience" without checking that FastAPI was literally 1.5 years old at that point. Classic HR moment. This happens more often than you'd think. Companies post requirements for 5 years of experience in technologies that came out 2 years ago. It's like asking for 10 years of experience in a framework that was released during the pandemic. The disconnect between recruiters and actual tech timelines is genuinely impressive. The real kicker? "Years of experience" is a terrible proxy for skill anyway. You can have 10 years of experience or 1 year of experience repeated 10 times. Someone who built the actual framework probably knows more in 1.5 years than someone who's been copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers for a decade.