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brennan
@brennan.computer

man if this isn't the most interesting character study I feel like I could make a whole docudrama about it, like a Zero Charisma or a Tiger King -- everyone is wrong in a different unique way, and then they all collide in the middle over something that never really mattered

philpax@philpax.me

i wanted to be sympathetic to someone watching their hobby/income disappear to ai but good lord the vibes here are rancid for *everyone* rec98.nmlgc.net/blog/2026-10...

brennan
@brennan.computer

I am sympathetic in the broad sense to the challenge of open source changing from personal stewardship to being defensive all of my stuff is "open source" which is a word that means you can read the repo - I've had like ten PRs in all this time, from friends, with good intentions, etc. that's easy!

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brennan
@brennan.computer

and so you have these passionate archetypes who are quietly chugging along on something and suddenly they have 500 monkeys in their kitchen and that's a very different management verb and skillset from whatever code they were whittling before I totally see how that sucks, and is changing so fast

brennan
@brennan.computer

it's tricky! there's a really fine line between project stewardship and personal fiefdom, and opinionated software (namely: opinionated software development) has a looong history of being on both sides of that line the ideal amount of fiefdomness is not even zero! direction includes protection

brennan
@brennan.computer

then you get into funding and income, and like, money is a whole other psychology and topic and skillset on its own, so now the surface area of people and personalities clashing over those motivations add even more chaos gremlins I dunno, I don't really have a point. I just find it so fascinating