The Open Source Paradox

[text] our code and weights are publicly available at ... repository with 10 subfolders 200 files 500 dependencies instructions only for command line usage

Content C compiler if I try to compile a random git repository WHERE DEPENDENCIES?

Content 40 YEARS AGO Programmer Computer Software Computer Hardware I have optimized my code so much that I now can run crysis on a potato TODAY what is a megabyte I'm scared Computer Hardware Computer Software Programmer help my chat client needs 9 gb ram I can perform ray tracing in real time while calculating a billion digits of pi while downloading 10 tb of data ProdrammeHumor i6

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute COLLAPSE of programmer confidence is just TRAGIC! 💀 Left side: Matrix-inspired badass ready to bend reality, rewrite entire codebases, and basically be a coding GOD. Right side: Pathetic little creature TRAPPED in Vim, the text editor equivalent of Hotel California - you can check in but YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE! (It's :q! by the way, you poor soul.) We went from "I'll rewrite the entire Matrix" to "help me escape this terminal window" faster than you can say "legacy codebase." The AUDACITY of our past selves! The HUMILIATION of our present reality!

Content Senior devs trying their best to solve it Severe bug in the production code Junior me trying to help by not really doing anything

The GREAT EDITOR WAR rages on with Vim and Emacs users acting like they're in some kind of text editor street gang, flashing their keyboard shortcuts like gang signs! Meanwhile, the DOS_USER at the bottom is just standing there, absolutely BAFFLED that people would wage holy war over text editors when they're still typing commands like "edit.com" in a command prompt from the STONE AGE! 💀 It's like watching two people argue about the best way to climb Mount Everest while you're still figuring out how stairs work. THE DRAMA! THE TRAGEDY! The sheer AUDACITY of still using DOS in 2023!