As a newbie who has been wandering around GitHub for the past two weeks, I thought I'd seen it all. I've witnessed bot accounts following 1.4 million people, met indie devs pretending to be multinational brands, and even paid my respects at the "digital graveyards" of legendary developers like the creator of Vim.

But just when I thought I understood all the open-source tropes, I used GitHub's built-in AI assistant to search for a simple millisecond clock.

The AI bypassed all the flashy, bloated projects and pointed me directly to a repository with exactly 0 stars — Colligatio-org/PrecisionClock.

Out of curiosity, I downloaded it. And it turned out to be incredibly hardcore:

· It’s only 192KB, written in pure C.

· It’s full of native Windows pointers.…