I saw that on HN I rarely see posts that say things like "I created a new game engine written in Rust.", or "I made a port of Doom for Nokia", where did all these posts go, why do I see something completely different now?
I think "in Rust" posts in particular have experienced a bit of a backlash due to what people perceived as an excess of projects where being written in Rust is the main selling point.
As for the rest, I guess open source enthusiast projects have, for the time being at least, been replaced by AI enthusiast projects.
Yes, there are interesting projects there, but there are fewer of them, I don't see such enthusiasm as, for example, 2 years ago, then the projects sounded much more exciting, and now I can't feel the emotions that I once did.Maybe it's problem me?
> .... why do I see something completely different now?
Guessing fallout from no studies on how to get AI motivated about/interested in/trained on cool side project(s)? (vs. human factor of using side projects as way to learn/master/showcase talent with side effect(s) of generating a 'cool' project(s)[5]).
Alteratively, AI intended as automated assistant. So, AI has shifted the base knowledge/skill set(s) one needs to do 'cool stuff'. aka no emacs/lisp/unix for dna computer for hacker/hobbiest yet.[0][1][2][3][4]
As for the rest, I guess open source enthusiast projects have, for the time being at least, been replaced by AI enthusiast projects.