Posted by louiereederson 5 hours ago
What percentage of GitHub activity goes to GitHub repos with less than 2 stars? I would guess it's close to the same number.
workers on the management track
stars : uniq(k)
1 : 14946505
10 : 1196622
100 : 213026
1000 : 28944
10000 : 1847
100000 : 20
Most people figure out this scam very early in life, but some cling to terrible jobs for unfathomable reasons. =3
Personally I think comparing github stars is always going to be a fraught metric.
Its business is underpinned by pre-AI assumptions about usage that, based on its recent instability, I suspect is being invalidated by surges in AI-produced code and commits.
I'm worried, at some point, they'll be forced to take an unpopular stance and either restrict free usage tiers or restrict AI somehow. I'm unsure how they'll evolve.
Github is still code-centric with issues and discussions being auxilliary/supporting features around the code. At some point those will become the frontline features, and the code will become secondary.
Or instead, is it mistakes being made migrating to Azure, rather than Azure being the actual problem? Changing providers can be difficult, especially if you relied on any proprietary services from the old provider.
It even sounds silly when you say it this way.
But also, GitHub profiles and repos were at one point a window into specific developers - like a social site for coders. Now it's suffering from the same problem that social media sites suffer from - AI-slop and unreliable signals about developers. Maybe that doesn't matter so much if writing code isn't as valuable anymore.
If you need to host git + a nice gui (as opposed to needing to promote your shit) Forgejo is free software.
At 2mo old - nearly a 1GB repo, 24M loc, 52K commits
https://github.com/thomaspryor/Broadwayscore
Polished site:https://broadwayscorecard.com/
Someone might want to tell the author to ask Claude what a database is typically used for...
Whatever reaction you have to this know that my internal reaction and yours were probably close.
Unfortunately that type of analysis would take a bit more work, but I think the repo info and commit messages could probably be used to do that.
The idea with Claude writing code for most part is that everyone can write software that they need. Software for the audience of one. GitHub is just a place for them to live beyond my computer.
Why will I want to promote it or get stars?