alt Hacker News90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
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The 2 stars or fewer metric may show one thing. We’re moving from an era of 'open source as a digital monument' to 'open source as a disposable scratchpad.' Not that the code is slop, it’s that the cost of creating a repository has dropped to near zero.
At a glance this may read as “most of this code isn’t valuable to others” but reality is probably complected with “this type of code is reducing the need for shared libraries”.
When we need to archive GitHub when it shuts down, I wonder if I'll need to exclude 30 billion lines of slop.
Stars ceased to be relevant a long time ago, around the time Github went from a beloved pillar of the open-source community to just another facet of the Microsoft behemoth.
the most of them have zero stars..
embarrassing
guilty :) 1 Star here - and even that is worthless
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Did we democratise software engineering? Seriously, I created a bunch of tools that I find useful without the bloated framework issues that are present in software nowadays. Jokes on me if something does not work.
Toggling the stars shows 50b lines of code created across all projects, only 5b on projects with 2+ stars since Claude Code launch. Kind of eye opening where these Claude Code tokens are going.
Came across this from this ShowHN post yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501348
Eh yeah, duh? I've been drilled to put every fart on GitHub. 98% of my repositories have 0 stars.