Would you be so kind as to elaborate? I definitely see you’re onto something.
How does the real world works? What are the hard parts? What’s wrong with using other people’s software?
I took their comment to mean that these people are standing on the massive mountains of progress that have been made, but not acknowledging that a lot of wasted effort was lost learning these things.
It's easy to only talk about what should be done with perfection in mind, it's another to talk about what can realistically be done.
It's no different in regards for anything else the humane race has done, we know the solutions to be done in regards to climate change, inequality; it's another to convince society to then go and try to solve these things with the solutions we thought of.
Not again. The real world does not work like that. The author has the luxury to have team meetings, onboarding, agile and all of that nonsense because the hard parts of open source have already been written by 10x engineers.
What the author is working on is presumably some kind of devops that uses other people's software.
Perhaps OSS was a mistake. It enables all sorts of pundits and is now repackaged by "AI".