Sure, in the spirit of open source, why not? It's a hobby, and it scratches an itch. I very much enjoy deconstructing things more than putting them together.

We also live in a world where a package written by someone learning to code ended up critically underpinning the entire ecosystem and is downloaded 500 million times a month.

Ignoring the eco-terror aspect of that for now, it means there's an awful lot of code out there which is finding itself under constant attack by a fleet of hostile AI.

I don't personally believe that the solution to that is "more AI", which firstly just overwhelms maintainers and secondly surrenders our human agency to a giant machine, with a hope that the "good" side can out-spend the bad.

Nor do I think the solution is to abandon the open internet and retreat behind corporate walls into curated spaces, "benevolently" protected by giant companies.

Which means holding on to the open internet requires a human approach, and any signal to help amplify the work there is a benefit.

It's also a good practice when taking a new job, especially if someone is a contractor and changes gigs every few months or years.

I've found that, when I start a job, I have to rely on smells like this to know what kind of mess (or if there is a mess) I need to clean up.