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by em-bee 1066 days ago
that and most FOSS projects are also not large-scale, or as a contributor you are only working on small patches that hardly qualify as large-scale experience.
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Or they don’t see the scale, which leads to friction with users. You don’t see how your tool gets used, leading to DevEx issues with the project, people asking with varying levels of politeness why you built things that way.

But at the end of the day the feedback is only so valuable, even when it comes with PRs.