Creator of Sqlite on pull requests: "You say, oh, it's free. No. It's not free. What you're doing is asking me ... to maintain it for you, to to document it for you, to test it for you, to maintain it for you for the next 25 years. That's not free." Yep.
Wise words from a wiser man than me. I've told people for the past decade and I have recent posts on here saying the same: the merge button is the easy part. Its the decade+ (Richard says 25 years) that follows where you've accepted the transfer of maintenance thats hard.
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I'm so old I wrote that!
That's assuming it's the Windows version, which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game, art, and original code, were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT, converted the x86 asm to C, made it work on RISC, and so on.
Success has many fathers, and all credit should really go to the original designers... I'm just the fun uncle that brought it to the masses.
@antibearthesis I don’t disagree, valuations are ridiculous but you cant really compare walmart to anthropic. One has value in cash flow and one has value in growth potential.
I love writing code. I use AI at work as it is an undeniable production booster, but even then I select the parts I’m interested to do manually. In my free time I use AI as a tutor and have it give me practice tasks and projects that I do 100% by hand because I thoroughly enjoy sharpening my skillset.