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		GodelNumbering 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Congratulations on creating the one billionth repo... There was a guy who got fired from Meta for creating excessive automated diffs in pursuit of a certain magic number

paxys 4 months ago | [–]

I hope PR #80085 was worth it.

fancyswimtime 4 months ago | | [–]

69 doesn't seem excessive

nithssh 4 months ago | [–]

Sounds interesting, is there anything online about this?

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