Stop Worshiping the Final Product. The Real Genius Is in the Commits.
Everyone worships the final product, but the real genius of a master programmer lives in the commit history. Antirez’s ds4 branch reveals a bottom-up, relentlessly iterative process — small commits, fundamental problems, zero performance. It’s a case study in how innovation actually happens: not through grand leaps, but through boring, disciplined, verifiable steps. The world rewards people who commit, not people who plan.