Stop lying to yourself. Having a repository count that hits triple digits doesn’t make you a senior developer—it makes you a serial quitter.
You need to stop rewarding the act of clicking “New Repository.” It’s the ultimate form of sophisticated procrastination. You’re not being “consistent” by starting something new every day; you’re just running away the second a project gets difficult.
Starting is easy. git init is a dopamine hit because there’s no technical debt, no broken dependencies, and no messy logic to untangle yet. But you don’t build skills in the first five commits. You build them in the 50th.
A profile littered with dozens of unfinished, one-commit repos is a massive red flag. It tells a hiring manager that you don’t have the grit to see a project through to production. They don’t care that you know how to initialize a project for the hundredth time; they want to see how you handled the boring, frustrating work of maintaining one.
True consistency is opening that same project folder you’ve been working on for three months and fixing a single, annoying bug. It’s refactoring your old, bad code instead of starting a “clean” version that you’ll just abandon again in a week.
Stop starting. Start finishing. One production-ready project is worth more than a hundred empty repositories.
Less than 10% of this guy’s repo have more than 10 commits.
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