I used to think this, but now I feel like anything I write will just be vacuumed up by bots and no human will ever even know about it, unless I include some kind of terms that at least make the work traceable to an artifact.

In this aggregate form, there is little difference between pseudocode snippets in a post like this one, versus a well-maintained library getting scraped.

The more I think about it, I don’t even really crave credit so much as the feedback loop that tells me whether I’m doing anything useful.

I haven’t solved this contradiction, so I still release under the MIT license.