I think there's an extra layer for the heavy addicts.
One is straight up ego, it's not just about creating, it's about telling yourself you're the next Knuth and Wirth all in one, you'll be the one to revolutionize how we do things, it will go down in history.
But it seems they don't like corporate megaprojects, they're not creating features and functionality as much as they are invention new abstractions.
And of course the ultimate addict project is a new programming language.
Some seem to be deeply disturbed by things not being open source and as simple as possible.
If there's a simpler way, even if the CPU savings aren't relevant and it takes far more effort, they want to explore it.
Sometimes it seems like they don't actually like tech at all, they like ideas. They want computers to be bicycles for the mind more than abstraction layers to outsource parts of life so we don't have to learn how tax papers work.
But they seem upset like they feel some responsibility to get the rest of us to use simpler tech and protect our privacy and add more logic and elegance to our software.
I think there's definitely multiple types of addicts with different motives.
One is straight up ego, it's not just about creating, it's about telling yourself you're the next Knuth and Wirth all in one, you'll be the one to revolutionize how we do things, it will go down in history.
But it seems they don't like corporate megaprojects, they're not creating features and functionality as much as they are invention new abstractions.
And of course the ultimate addict project is a new programming language.
Some seem to be deeply disturbed by things not being open source and as simple as possible.
If there's a simpler way, even if the CPU savings aren't relevant and it takes far more effort, they want to explore it.
Sometimes it seems like they don't actually like tech at all, they like ideas. They want computers to be bicycles for the mind more than abstraction layers to outsource parts of life so we don't have to learn how tax papers work.
But they seem upset like they feel some responsibility to get the rest of us to use simpler tech and protect our privacy and add more logic and elegance to our software.
I think there's definitely multiple types of addicts with different motives.