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The 2020 Snapshot
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The video flickered to life. A younger, pre-LLM-boom Andrei stood in front of a whiteboard. No fancy graphics, no AI overlays. Just a marker, a grin, and a challenge. “Welcome back! In this section, we’re building a Jupyter Notebook script that scrapes weather data from a public API. No AI. No copy-paste. You. The terminal. And a requests.get() call.” Maya snorted. Scraping? That was a task for a junior’s junior. But the first exercise was broken. The API endpoint from 2020 was dead. Instead of rage-quitting, she felt a flicker. She opened a raw Python file—no AI assistant—and dug into the API’s documentation. She found the new endpoint. She adjusted the parameters. She wrote a try/except block for the first time in a year. And it was just beginning