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When Antirez left Redis, he wrote an amazing blog post I go back to often [0]. In there he said:

"I write code in order to express myself, and I consider what I code an artifact, rather than just something useful to get things done. I would say that what I write is useful just as a side effect, but my first goal is to make something that is, in some way, beautiful. In essence, I would rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer."

I'm glad Antirez was seeing his art losing it's beauty and now, is reclaiming it!

0. https://antirez.com/news/133




So nice to hear talk like that in the AI "your code is worthless age". Keep the craft going!




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