>I have a sneaking suspicion that people are having some agent check out 500 repos and just prompting with “find a bug in this repo and fix it” and submitting the results blindly.

This is unironically suggested as a way to 'get in the door' both in bootcamps and 'spammy' universities.

I have seen a job application with a requirement of having contributed to an open source project with a certain minimum number of github stars.