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Github stats are not pertinent anymore because Claude AI can turn them upside down.
It’s now easy to ask Claude to generate a list of interesting open source projects, then ask Claude to find some problems in them, and then ask Claude to raise some PRs to fix them. You don’t even have to use the projects or care about them, but you can easily create the illusion to outsiders that you care, or that you found a problem, or that you put the time into fixing it. [...]
Maybe this was unreasonable, but truthfully, I’m just not interested in encouraging people to take up our time with this kind of busywork. I do not want to set a precedent of accepting PRs that materially improve nothing, nor do I want our contributor list to become a reward for asking a robot to fix typos.