TLDR: you don't have to leave the industry, just focus on yourself and not your feelings
> The people and corporations and all those LinkedIn gurus, podcasters
You can just mute and ignore them
> I'm now scared to publish open source
If you get many PRs it's a good problem to have, better than you publish and nobody reads it
> mediocre C compilers, Moltbook
it's all experiments. You can say the same thing about cleantech 15 years ago, where companies talked about solar panels and electric cars with swappable batteries all the time. You don't have to keep track of all things people experimenting with
> The people and corporations and all those LinkedIn gurus, podcasters
You can just mute and ignore them
> I'm now scared to publish open source
If you get many PRs it's a good problem to have, better than you publish and nobody reads it
> mediocre C compilers, Moltbook
it's all experiments. You can say the same thing about cleantech 15 years ago, where companies talked about solar panels and electric cars with swappable batteries all the time. You don't have to keep track of all things people experimenting with