misaligned incentives. people get rewarded for simply publishing SOMETHING. look at companies, bootcamps, whatever the hell. most promotions are given bc you've written some low effort blog post that really add nothing to the broader intelligence of software building. hell, even bootcamps are like "go write/publish something!!" and most of these people have barely a clue as to how software operates. GL sifting through all of that useless content

i wouldn't be surprised if a very large percentage of the last decade of tech blog posts are just remnants of someone's promotion, and is now hyperlinked on some resume, or linkedin page