Eh yeah, duh? I've been drilled to put every fart on GitHub. 98% of my repositories have 0 stars.
90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
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Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
My reaction as well -- I have a few dozen public repos of 100% human-written code, most are 0 stars!
The first thing I do when I make a new repo is star it myself ;-)
Didn't know I could do that, I assumed it wouldn't be permitted.
This likely tripled the amount of stars I have.
Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
#173Already enough comments about base rate fallacy, so instead I'll say I'm worried for the future of GitHub. 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…
after microsoft acquired it, they greatly expanded the free tier allowances, and they still seem happy to dump money into it
Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
#174While you have the base rate fallacy, it might also be that people with a bit bigger repos might be paying closer attention.
I disabled all the attribution. I find it noisy and I'm not blaming claude, I'm blaming someone if something is broken.
Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
#175It looks like my one-star repository [1] came close to making this person's leaderboard for number of commits (currently 5,524 since January, all by Claude Code). I'm not sure what that means, though. Only a small percentage of those commits are code. The vast majority are entries for a Japanese-English dictionary being written by Claude under my supervision. I'm using Github for this personal project because it turn…
Make your own Github: forgejo.org One used Lenovo micro PC (size of a book) from eBay will serve you well.
Just don't put it online, because the AI scrapers will find it and crawle it so aggressively that your mini/micro-PC will blow up.
Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
#176Codeberg if you hate AI.
I wonder if there's a critical failure mode / safety feature of our species for some percentage of the population to always dislike whatever some other large percentage of the population likes. As if it's to prevent the species from over-indexing on a particular set of behaviors. Like how divisive films such as "Signs", "Cloud Atlas", and even "The Last Jedi" are loved by some and utterly reviled by others. While tha…
It could be tied to the "wandering gene" which is believe to ensure that we spread out and don't get stuck in some local optimization.
Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
#177Do people really put weight in stars? It seems completely unrelated to anything but, well, popularity. Even when I modify other peoples' code I fork to a private repo and maintain my changes separately, and I'm fairly certain I have never starred a repo.
Stars have always tracked attention more than quality.
It’s just way cheaper to spin up repos now — lots of these are probably one-and-done.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, every time I see a heatmap of Australian lotto winners - very high correlation with Australia's population.
shouldn't a serious heatmap (or any comparative graph for that matter) normalize the stat being displayed versus the baseline population in that bucket? in otherwords, plot the percentage or average metric and not the absolute metric. e.g. number of lotto winners per thousand people living in that grid, percentage of starred repos as a percentage of all repos, per capita alcohol consumption, average screen-time etc.…
Still would just show where people live. If nobody lives there, you've got a null (or divide by zero) spot on the map ... so you just show where people live.
Re: 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars
#180Perfect example of a base rate fallacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy What percentage of GitHub activity goes to GitHub repos with less than 2 stars? I would guess it's close to the same number.
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