It's a mix of signaling, busywork and productivity porn for the ingroup.

A few years ago we had GitHub resource-spam about smart contracts and Web3 and AWESOME NFT ERC721 HACK ON SOLANA NEXT BIG THING LIST.

Now we have repos for the "Self-Rewriting Meta-Prompt Loop" and "Gas Town":

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

If you haven't got a Rig for your project with a Mayor whose Witness oversees the Polecats who are supervised by a Deacon who manages Dogs (special shoutout to Boot!) who work with a two-level Beads structure and GUPP and MEOW principles... you're not gonna make it.