Robyn Anderson recalls a developer who made sexist comments about her appearance at an agency, leaving her feeling trapped. She reflects on how AI now lets women code and build independently, sidestepping male gatekeeping, though she wishes this weren't necessary.
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One time when I was working at an agency, I really needed to have my client's website pushed from development to live. And it was a whole process back then. And I used to have to go ask our developers, put in a ticket, blah, blah, blah, follow the process. And I remember this one developer I always got stuck with would always say stuff like, oh, wear a shorter skirt tomorrow and I'll push your website. Or just dumb stuff like that. And it made me realize that AI has given women such an incredible opportunity to be able to vibe, code and build stuff and not have to deal with a very. Oh my dog scared me. A very male oriented world. And we can kind of just do stuff on our own now. And that's sad, but true.