alt Hacker News> This isn't zero sum.
True, it is actually negative sum, because fake merit erodes trust in real merit, as it makes it a lot harder to spot the latter.
> This isn't zero sum.
True, it is actually negative sum, because fake merit erodes trust in real merit, as it makes it a lot harder to spot the latter.
I think Goodhart's law applies really well here. When people make commits for the sake of having made a commit to some famous repo, the "merit" that a commit measures is already useless. Remember Hacktoberfest 2020, before LLMs were popular? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894