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

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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.…

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  1. 2026-09-22 02:35 · DEV Community — AI
    The code was never the point: Hacktoberfest, AI, and the value of the climb

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