Star Driven Development

Do you like awesome-[insert-lang] lists on Github? Did you wish that stars were displayed next to the repo name though? Use this chrome extension and make your wish come true!

I’m worried that stars will become a sought after metric that people imbue with too much meaning.

I like stars. I find them useful for quickly filtering amongst so many repos (eg, “foo has 1000 stars, bar has 1, lets read about foo first.”).

But like Goodhart’s Law [0], if people start minmaxing for stars rather than the quality that stars are supposed to proxy, stars will stop being useful and could even be distracting.

[0] https://towardsdatascience.com/unintended-consequences-and-g...