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by mpeg 10 days ago
I find it quite dishonest as github stars used to be (and maybe still are?) the measure of an open source project popularity, and these big, flashy LLM generated repos seem to always get a bit of attention

Have seen it from jobseekers trying to boost their profile with fake projects, founders trying to make their product more attractive to VCs, consultants trying to advertise their services...

I don't always have time for OSS, but every PR I've ever sent has always been hand written, and tested, and has taken into consideration the project coding style and architecture choices – I don't like this new world where developers can't even be bothered to write the docs.