Why all the PRs?

It's a signal. That's why we get AI-generated PRs. We told everyone, in order to get your resume taken seriously, you need to show your work. When I was getting started in my career, that meant having your own website that you contribute to regularly. So I did that. I built websites, I maintained them. I kept maintaining them even after I got the jobs because that's how I actually honed my web programming skills. Where else was I going to try new frameworks, a new JavaScript paradigm, or try out Ruby on rails? I got the job, and I advised other developers to follow the same path. But then github became mainstream. Rather than just show a finished website, you could actually share the code that runs your project. Share a link to your github project and companies can review your code and directly gauge your experience. But even better, you can show your contribution to open source projects. Not just any projects. Popular projects. The github stars became a metric people look for. A…