[watwut]

This feels like an alternative history. OS contributions were never all that important metric and overwhelming majority of developers have literally none.

And it is not like AI spam would be limited or even primary targetted at bounties.

[marcus_holmes]

There's a whole thing about advising new folks in the industry to contribute to OS projects on github as proof that they're actually really keen developers.

This [0] is an example, there are many more.

The whole idea that we have to have a "portfolio" of work.

[0] https://talentslab.io/7-strategies-for-a-junior-developer-to...