The code was never the point: Hacktoberfest, AI, and the value of the climb

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<p>I have a small drawer of Hacktoberfest T-shirts. Four of them, I think. Every October for years I would carve out a weekend, find a few issues, open my pull requests, and wait for the merges that earned me the shirt. I wore them with real pride. They were proof that I had shown up for open source.</p> <h2> The end of the PR count </h2> <p>This year, Hacktoberfest is not counting pull requests.</p> <p>The whole thing has moved to hundreds of in-person "Fests" and an online hackathon built around open-source and open-weight AI. Their own wording is what stuck with me: "Instead of counting PRs

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<p>I have a small drawer of Hacktoberfest T-shirts. Four of them, I think. Every October for years I would carve out a weekend, find a few issues, open my pull requests, and wait for the merges that earned me the shirt. I wore them with real pride. They were proof that I had shown up for open source.</p> <h2> The end of the PR count </h2> <p>This year, Hacktoberfest is not counting pull requests.</p> <p>The whole thing has moved to hundreds of in-person "Fests" and an online hackathon built around open-source and open-weight AI. Their own wording is what stuck with me: "Instead of counting PRs

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<p>I have a small drawer of Hacktoberfest T-shirts. Four of them, I think. Every October for years I would carve out a weekend, find a few issues, open my pull requests, and wait for the merges that earned me the shirt. I wore them with real pride. They were proof that I had shown up for open source.</p> <h2> The end of the PR count </h2> <p>This year, Hacktoberfest is not counting pull requests.</p> <p>The whole thing has moved to hundreds of in-person "Fests" and an online hackathon built around open-source and open-weight AI. Their own wording is what stuck with me: "Instead of counting PRs

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The code was never the point: Hacktoberfest, AI, and the value of the climb

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