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Yeah. Most of my public repos have 0 stars. Most of what I write sucks.

by ttul 7mo ago

Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
Yeah, but knowing something sucks means you are probably reasonably competent at coding. =3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
- strongly-typed 7mo ago
  Doesn’t matter if the recruiter doesn’t call you back because you’re not a 1000x engineer.
  - Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
    Why would anyone settle for underpaid positions from an agency taking a 7% contract cut, and purging CVs from any external firm also contracting with their services. Most people figure out this scam very early in life, but some cling to terrible jobs for unfathomable reasons. =3
    - akoboldfrying 7mo ago
      > Why would anyone settle for The answer to such questions is always that, given their circumstances, they have no realistic choice not to. This is very obvious, and it's frustrating to continually see people pretend otherwise.
      - Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
        > they have no realistic choice not to If folks expect someone to solve problems for them, than 100% people end up unhappy. The old idea of loyalty buying a 30 year career with vertical movement died sometime in the 1990s. Ikigai chart will help narrow down why people are unhappy: https://stevelegler.com/2019/02/16/ikigai-a-four-circle-model-of-human-capital/ https://stevelegler.com/2019/02/16/ikigai-a-four-circle-mode... Even if folks are not thinking about doing a project, I still highly recommend this crash course in small business contracts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U Rule #24: The lawyers Strategic Truth is to never lie, but also avoid voluntarily disclosing information that may help opponents. Best of luck =3
        akoboldfrying 7mo ago
        > If folks expect someone to solve problems for them In this type of situation, the fundamental issue is that making progress depends on many people acting in unison to increase their bargaining power, which is (a) hard to arrange even if everyone who acted this way would benefit, and (b) actually may be detrimental to some people (usually the high performers).
        Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
        I agree it is nearly impossible to alter the inertia of existing firms. Most have entrenched process people that defend how things are done right up until a company enters insolvency. Fine if you sell soda or rubber tires, but a death knell for technology or media firms. In my observations it is usually conditioned fear, personal debt-driven risk aversion, and or failure to even ask if the department above you is really necessary. These days, it is almost always easier to go to another firm if you want a promotion. =3
- racl101 7mo ago
  +1 star for ttul
- josephg 7mo ago
  No it doesn't. The people with the lowest self perception also have the lowest actual skill. Look at the chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#/media/File:Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_Effect2.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...
  - gnabgib 7mo ago
    That isn't what that shows, and the article you linked to even warns: > In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is sometimes misunderstood as claiming that people with low intelligence are generally overconfident, instead of denoting specific overconfidence of people unskilled at particular areas. Dunning-Kruger has also been discredited with suggestion they may have been over confident themselves: The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real (2020) https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-... Debunking the Dunning‑Kruger effect – the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average (2023) https://theconversation.com/debunking-the-dunning-kruger-effect-the-least-skilled-people-know-how-much-they-dont-know-but-everyone-thinks-they-are-better-than-average-195527Debunking https://theconversation.com/debunking-the-dunning-kruger-eff... the Dunning‑Kruger effect – the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average
    - Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
      No idea why we all get negative karma on this thread, as I do respect a cited source opinion even if we disagree. Do have a look around for papers rather than editorialized content in the future, and note account LLM agent output is a violation of YC usage policy. Have a great day =3 https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151 https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151
    - flexagoon 7mo ago
      Are you replying to the wrong comment? The person you're responding to seems to make the same point
- alickz 7mo ago
  Even if you're not correct, I respect your positivity and constructive attitude It's good to raise people's expectations of themselves
  - Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
    Self-reported studies are arguably weaker evidence, but are common in some areas for ethics reasons. In general, if errors are truly random, than they will cancel out over larger/frequent population samples. The study conclusion inferred the skills needed to be effective at some task, are the same skills needed to correctly evaluate if you are actually proficient at the same tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151 https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151 If the data infers another explanation is more applicable, than I'd be interested in the primary papers/studies the editorialized opinion seems to have omitted. =3
ryandrake 7mo ago
GitHub Stars (or any online 'star count') is not an indicator of quality.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
  > not an indicator of quality I mean, it’s an indicator. Just not a definitive—or individually sufficient—one.
_lvbh 7mo ago
Stars occasionally correlate with quality but more often it's timing and naming. I have a total of 40k stars on GitHub, and I know the code is shit in most of those repos (many written back when I was 16-18 as I was just learning to code). Jumping on hype trains before they start is how you get stars.

Yeah. Most of my public repos have 0 stars. Most of what I write sucks.

by ttul 7mo ago

Yeah. Most of my public repos have 0 stars. Most of what I write sucks.

Yeah, but knowing something sucks means you are probably reasonably competent at coding. =3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

strongly-typed 7mo ago
Doesn’t matter if the recruiter doesn’t call you back because you’re not a 1000x engineer.
- Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
  Why would anyone settle for underpaid positions from an agency taking a 7% contract cut, and purging CVs from any external firm also contracting with their services. Most people figure out this scam very early in life, but some cling to terrible jobs for unfathomable reasons. =3
  - akoboldfrying 7mo ago
    > Why would anyone settle for The answer to such questions is always that, given their circumstances, they have no realistic choice not to. This is very obvious, and it's frustrating to continually see people pretend otherwise.
    - Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
      > they have no realistic choice not to If folks expect someone to solve problems for them, than 100% people end up unhappy. The old idea of loyalty buying a 30 year career with vertical movement died sometime in the 1990s. Ikigai chart will help narrow down why people are unhappy: https://stevelegler.com/2019/02/16/ikigai-a-four-circle-model-of-human-capital/ https://stevelegler.com/2019/02/16/ikigai-a-four-circle-mode... Even if folks are not thinking about doing a project, I still highly recommend this crash course in small business contracts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U Rule #24: The lawyers Strategic Truth is to never lie, but also avoid voluntarily disclosing information that may help opponents. Best of luck =3
      - akoboldfrying 7mo ago
        > If folks expect someone to solve problems for them In this type of situation, the fundamental issue is that making progress depends on many people acting in unison to increase their bargaining power, which is (a) hard to arrange even if everyone who acted this way would benefit, and (b) actually may be detrimental to some people (usually the high performers).
        Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
        I agree it is nearly impossible to alter the inertia of existing firms. Most have entrenched process people that defend how things are done right up until a company enters insolvency. Fine if you sell soda or rubber tires, but a death knell for technology or media firms. In my observations it is usually conditioned fear, personal debt-driven risk aversion, and or failure to even ask if the department above you is really necessary. These days, it is almost always easier to go to another firm if you want a promotion. =3
racl101 7mo ago
+1 star for ttul
josephg 7mo ago
No it doesn't. The people with the lowest self perception also have the lowest actual skill. Look at the chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#/media/File:Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_Effect2.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...
- gnabgib 7mo ago
  That isn't what that shows, and the article you linked to even warns: > In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is sometimes misunderstood as claiming that people with low intelligence are generally overconfident, instead of denoting specific overconfidence of people unskilled at particular areas. Dunning-Kruger has also been discredited with suggestion they may have been over confident themselves: The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real (2020) https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-... Debunking the Dunning‑Kruger effect – the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average (2023) https://theconversation.com/debunking-the-dunning-kruger-effect-the-least-skilled-people-know-how-much-they-dont-know-but-everyone-thinks-they-are-better-than-average-195527Debunking https://theconversation.com/debunking-the-dunning-kruger-eff... the Dunning‑Kruger effect – the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average
  - Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
    No idea why we all get negative karma on this thread, as I do respect a cited source opinion even if we disagree. Do have a look around for papers rather than editorialized content in the future, and note account LLM agent output is a violation of YC usage policy. Have a great day =3 https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151 https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151
  - flexagoon 7mo ago
    Are you replying to the wrong comment? The person you're responding to seems to make the same point
alickz 7mo ago
Even if you're not correct, I respect your positivity and constructive attitude It's good to raise people's expectations of themselves
- Joel_Mckay 7mo ago
  Self-reported studies are arguably weaker evidence, but are common in some areas for ethics reasons. In general, if errors are truly random, than they will cancel out over larger/frequent population samples. The study conclusion inferred the skills needed to be effective at some task, are the same skills needed to correctly evaluate if you are actually proficient at the same tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151 https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151 If the data infers another explanation is more applicable, than I'd be interested in the primary papers/studies the editorialized opinion seems to have omitted. =3

ryandrake 7mo ago

GitHub Stars (or any online 'star count') is not an indicator of quality.

JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
> not an indicator of quality I mean, it’s an indicator. Just not a definitive—or individually sufficient—one.

_lvbh 7mo ago

Stars occasionally correlate with quality but more often it's timing and naming. I have a total of 40k stars on GitHub, and I know the code is shit in most of those repos (many written back when I was 16-18 as I was just learning to code). Jumping on hype trains before they start is how you get stars.