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GitHub stars are becoming pointless?

by lorepieri on 4/18/23, 11:19 AM with 4 comments

Not sure if it is an instance of Goodhart's law or just increased exposure to non-developers crowds, but Github stars used to be a good indicator of the popularity AND adoption of an open source project.

Nowadays, a demo project gets 89k stars in few days... https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT

What do you think?

  • by wsgeorge on 4/18/23, 12:38 PM

    At this stage of LLM-based AI, you can consign everything to the "a demo project" bin, because adoption is in no way at par with more traditional tools.

    Meaning, the area is skewed towards popularity/interest, and for that, GitHub Stars remain a good-enough indicator, just as upvotes on GH issues, and posts on certain sites are.

  • by db48x on 4/18/23, 11:26 AM

    GitHub stars were always pointless.

  • by PaulHoule on 4/18/23, 11:36 AM

    Some people get lucky.

  • by pacifika on 4/18/23, 11:22 AM

    Think it’s an outlier