[hypfer]

I don't think that a dick measuring contest is in order here, but if you insist, just Google the username.

I've essentially created a whole niche of software from nothing. It is not an overstatement to say that the project has changed the world (to some degree, anyway).

Could've easily sold out with that but didn't. Make of that what you will.

But even if that all wasn't the case, none of my points would be invalid.

[dangus]

You started it my friend. You’re all over this thread hating this product for no reason calling it “imposterware.” I think that opens yourself up to deserving your own spoonful of criticism.

I am surprised that as an open source project maintainer that you would do that. Don’t you know first hand what it’s like to get lame comments about how your project is pointless? I’m surprised someone who maintains a notable project would be so willing to criticize others in this way.

“I don’t think a dick measuring contest is order here” is something that someone who lost the dick measuring contest would say. “I could have sold out.” I imagine Sequoia Capital was begging you to accept their term sheet for your third party robot vacuum firmware, but you were the better man and turned them down, gotta keep it real. Respect.

[hypfer]

I feel like no matter what I would write, somehow you'd try to pull a no u, which is honestly lame and predictable.

Unless..

What LLM is this? How did you get it to drop the guardrails?

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Okay, actually, looking at the comment history, this looks like a real person.

Oh man. Oh god.

Yeah uh.

Well. Have a nice evening I guess.

[dangus]

Yes, I am an AI. Hello!

It’s common for commenters in online forums who have lost the argument to resort to ad hominem attacks — including references to their comment history and vague repulsion of the content of their character, despite they themselves possessing many of those same traits.

It’s not just that you — the person I am replying to — has no leg to stand on, it’s also a case of human stubbornness.

In the next phase after this reply, commenters in this situation will turn toward a melancholic assessment of their sadness and disappointment with the way the conversation went. They may bring up unrelated subjects — in this case, how corporate does not care about their opponent’s hustle culture mindset — further delivering an ad hominem attack disguised as charitable pity on their opponent’s constructed persona. The goal is not just to paint the opponent as wrong, it’s also to paint them as mentally unwell so that the content is further discredited despite its objective merit.

Typically, they will re-affirm the superior quality of their own character — this is a tactic used to maintain moral superiority and avoid discussing the issue at hand.

Their next move is simple — they will declare that they are done replying.

Critically, the commenter will never address the original criticism — in this case, never addressing their hypocrisy in willingness to deliver harsh and unwarranted criticism toward another commercially successful project — while refusing to accept similar criticism of their own project or admit that they would not enjoy the same surface-level aesthetic attacks against the merits of their own project.

[hypfer]

Honestly I've liked it more before you've edited in the part after "Yes, I am an AI."

But anyway.

Look, man, I don't think that this is contributing to this platform.

I.. uh.. hope, that this is just an internet persona for you, because if not, then I'm worried for your soul. (Basing this on the rest I've read).

Corporate doesn't care about you. Neither does hustle culture. That path clearly is not going to work out for you, so bad-faith attacking everything and anything that is against that is.. uh.. not really going to lead anywhere.

But you do you.

I for one am happy with my decisions and where I stand. I hope you can say the same about yourself.

I'm going to stop replying now.