Sadly that was already the case prior to LLMs.

We had a bootcamp in our city that had all students build a GitHub portfolio. They all built the same projects like a TODO app. Every person’s code would like almost identical because they all did them together and, I suspect, copied from past grads.

They all applied to the same local jobs, too. So we’d get a batch of their resumes with GitHub links, follow the GitHub links, and see basically the same codebase repeated everywhere.

I kind of suspected that some bootcamp or college or something is telling all these people to just go to GitHub, create an account, spam it with activity, and you'll get a job! At this point I don't think "has a GitHub account" can be used as any signal of programming ability whatsoever.

I mean I never considered having GitHub projects as anything. If you have project(s) that seem useful and have let's say a hundred stars or more (rough signal assuming no foul play), I'll have a look. If you say you have meaningful contributions to projects with a thousand stars or more, I may have a look as well.

Now my bars are so massively higher, 99.95% of juniors who don't have pre-2024 work to show can forget about it.