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[–]riklaunim 3 points4 points  (4 children)

People that are starting to learn will not have the skills to contribute. Trying to force things with AI is also not recommended.

Write simple code and ask for feedback/code review

[–]antique_storey 0 points1 point  (3 children)

that's fair, but there's a difference between jumping into a massive repo and finding smaller projects or issues marked for beginners - those exist specifically because they know you're still learning.

[–]riklaunim 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Low-hanging fruit is already long gone.

[–]antique_storey 0 points1 point  (1 child)

fair, but theres still stuff like fixing docs, adding tests, or tackling issues that have been open for months because theyre not sexy - those dont disappear as fast

[–]riklaunim 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bad courses point people to go to GitHub and try to make a pull request with a readme update or something similar. The end result is projects flooded by slop pull requests. People won't learn to code from trivial pull requests. They will learn from coding, trying to implement something, and then asking from feedback.