Of course he&#x27;s changed things about how he works.  But ESR was wrong about the specific change he was arguing for (more frameworky code for device drivers) in that mess of musings about maturity and intelligence.  See elsewhere in this thread for links to the context.<p>Ironically, imho, Raymond is the one who&#x27;s afflicted by a &quot;curse of the gifted&quot; in thinking that one can come up with a future proof abstraction in a domain like that.