Comment by Etheryte

7 hours ago

I worked for a major open-source company for half a decade. Everyone thinks their contribution is a gift and you should be grateful. To quote Bo Burnham, "you think your dick is a gift, I promise it's not".

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Cthulhu_  5 hours ago

Sounds like everyone's got some main character syndrome, the cure for that is to be a meaningless cog in the enterprise wheels for a while. But then I suspect a lot of open source contributions are done exactly by those people - they don't really matter in their day job, but in open source they can Make A Difference.

Of course, the vast majority of OS work is the same cog-in-a-machine work, and with low effort AI assisted contributions, the non-hero-coding work becomes more prevalent than ever.