Comment by nz

The worst part of this, is that projects that present themselves like this, poison the pool for everyone else. I imagine that many people are now disinclined to ever publish a hand-coded project in this genre (retro-computing), because people might assume that this was a trivial project (e.g. what are you so proud of, my baby 12-year-old nephew did something similar two weekends ago, just by yapping at his phone, while waiting for level-loading-screen to finish).

The Haiku project (an OS based on BeOS), is a remarkable achievement. It is sad that we may never see such things again, because people want their achievements to mean something, and, increasingly, intellectual achievements are becoming (unjustly and misleadingly) trivialized by the LLM hype machine.

It feels like humanity is deliberately making itself colorblind.