In reality people are rarely rich based on merit alone.

EDIT: Sorry it was a really clever joke.

Judging by the downvotes that other guy got, he wasn’t “absolutely correct!” as you seem to claim.

Stop constantly editing your message.

When those three to four amateurs still doing those niche things grow up they’ll move on to real programming, like putting together a solid skills.md file.

Everything I do to interact with my computer is still the same.

See how boring you are?

Have you worked for a company that hasn’t created its own, as you put it “mini language”?

Have you worked for a company that doesn’t indulge in over engineering, over abstraction and hidden cost?

Do you actually do programming for a job at all?

But you know best it seems!

"What's the matter, just fork it when it goes bad?"

The problem is that uv in and of itself, whilst a great technical achievement isn't sufficient. Astral run a massive DevOps pipeline that, just to give one example, packages the python distributions.

Those who are saying that forking is an option are clearly not arguing it in good faith.

I think it’s time to pony up.

Where are your vibe coded databases that take on SQLite and Postgres?

Where are your vibe coded Operating Systems?

Where are your vibe coded browsers?

Where are your vibe coded literally anything?

I’ve read and listened to enough of Linus to know he says this himself. The Linux kernel is nothing without the maintainers, this is easily observable and everyone knows it.

You see the reason you shouldn’t go into detective work is because you’d be terrible at it, not because it’s non-trivial.

What on earth are you talking about? Don’t quit your day job to become a detective.