Comment by rideontime

And the follies here seem to be many. I’m not following why this Marko guy would make a publicly-visible fork of a repo (though he seems to have deleted it since this story went big), and why they would openly request to have their accounts exempted from logging when they were apparently already privileged users.

I must be missing something here; surely the level of elite technical skill implicit in his résumé would preclude this kind of thing

Well yeah they're junior developers. By all account from good schools but literally everyone here has dealt with junior developer brain.

I would say that Elmo picked a bunch of junior devs because they don't have enough maturity to talk back and will do anything they're asked but I think that's too charitable. I think he actually went this route because Elmo is a sad man in his 50s who is desperately trying to pretend that he is, and has not matured beyond, his 20s.