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I was on a similar journey at around the same time but went the opposite route via Flask, and front-end turning from looking at React etc to just HTMX. Almost exactly the opposite!
I get that I'm not YouTube's target captive audience. Perhaps you aren't any more either.
Incubation of senior management in US tech has reached singularity and only one person's up for the job. Doom awaits the US tech sector as there's no organisational ability other than one person able and willing to take the big complex job.
Or:
Sam's overvalued.
One or the other.
Go for it.
It reminds me of why I've returned to reading academic papers. Not for the 'correctness', but as I've tired tripping on the twisting vines of short digestible answers endlessly immovably entwined by themselves but whose true root is no more than the thinnest topsoil.
Once you've done it once, re-use that.
And even when not re-used directly, there's knowledge learnt.
Heck, even using CHMOD for the first hundred times and all of the other problem solving (and, problem avoidance) arsenal built up.
The secret in the secret sauce is these increments that provide powerful mental as well as code tools. And of them, a reason I come back to HN a lot, is reflecting on how others do this.
> Julian Jaynes, who introduced the concept of bicameral mentality in his 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, proposed that humans only became conscious 3,000 years ago, and that this was not a biological evolution, but a learned behavior.
And how everyone managed to 'wake up' and make the change to being conscious.
Is the good rival or non-rival?
Is it excludable or non-excludable?
What is the product? Is the product the code, or is it something more than that static, stateless piece of code?
And what is the need/want? Is the need/want the code, or is it something else?
Further -
Take a huge endevour, such as Linux. No company might have attempted this by themselves. The profit each one could have nabbed is less than the development cost. But by colluding, they can, and in doing so avoid their monopoly vendors.
Interesting points.
I feel a post addressing these might shed some light. And expect wildly different answers for different types of open source project.
But I get your point, and eagerly await my spam with deposed princes' githubs profiles not stolen from MIT licenced projects, and blog photos not written by GPT and illustrated by DALL-E.
Perhaps what we need is a credibility coin, based on blockchain. Or a national ID card system. To prove I am who I am. As without it, I am not.