Comment by PaulKeeble

In the age of AI it will at the very least be laundered through various commercial interests into commercial for profit tools. Depending on the license you intended to release the code under (and you should read into the various licenses and what they intend to achieve and protect and what they don't) that may or may not matter to you, but it is happening.

Fundamentally most code goes no where, no one shows much interest unless you release a hit project. It can however be really impactful in interviews and recruitment, if your code is readable and well tested and such then it can be quite a positive for the right types of organisations. So at some point you may very well want to make it public for this purpose.