Comment by brailsafe
11 hours ago
This is one of the aspects of this year that I've been finding very grating and wasteful. Collaboration still happens among people with the ability to do so and the technical skills, but everyone else is taking their own helicopter to the top of the mountain, "putting it out there", and there's just a ton of redundant projects that do the same thing.
It's horrible. Every 20-something working on a load-bearing inference engine on GitHub.
for the record, I'm almost 35
Also for the record, I wasn't trying to take a personal shot at you or your project—nor am I sure of how valid that would be, if that were to have been my intention—it's just a gripe I have in general what I think is somewhat degrading the trust I can have in certain types of projects, especially those that someone shits out, puts on the app store, appears on the surface to visibly look ok, but ultimately has no uniquely valuable contribution or long-term outlook and is just someone's zero to one replication of something that has an api and already exists. It is admittedly cynical, but I now scrutizinize what I pay for more aggressively as a consequence.