I'm entirely unremarkable, but looking back I would say most of my biggest personal and professional developments have been built upon some sort of failure or mistake.
You clearly haven't because you, in error, think it'll nuke job prospects.
It won't. They won't care. Trust me.
And it won't make one bit of difference If I answer right or wrong When you're succesfull they think you really know.
Yeah, just not in the field Chris Lattner works in. This thread seems to have him confused for Kim Kardasian.
If it's not a good fit, why can't it be a failure on the employer side?
(It is a wee more difficult to write LLVM than homebrew, though - so it might not have exactly the same impact. But I'm guessing that e.g. Apple would still hire him, if he wants to)
He did put it on his resume and it didn't matter one bit. Lattner got offers from Google without having to do the interviews. Max was subjected to the interviews and rejected. The lack of marketing and the fact nobody knows his name is a huge factor.