There's a person working on vi who has tracked three decades of patches from OpenBSD starting from Keith Bostic.
There's someone working on an obscure roleplaying game that's pre-Diablo.
There's the ones who sail on a boat and craft bespoke C-reations on their own virtual machine.
The X11 maintainers, always and ever.
So many more. And not for some reward at the end of a mortal journey, but in some sense for its own sake.
Even with LLMs and the flex of planet-scale computation, in the midst of wild, speculative financial schemes, there is a comfort in a familiar domain, patches therein, and being a kind of owner of this, essentially intangible, work of code.
There's a person working on vi who has tracked three decades of patches from OpenBSD starting from Keith Bostic.
There's someone working on an obscure roleplaying game that's pre-Diablo.
There's the ones who sail on a boat and craft bespoke C-reations on their own virtual machine.
The X11 maintainers, always and ever.
So many more. And not for some reward at the end of a mortal journey, but in some sense for its own sake.
Even with LLMs and the flex of planet-scale computation, in the midst of wild, speculative financial schemes, there is a comfort in a familiar domain, patches therein, and being a kind of owner of this, essentially intangible, work of code.