I don't get this. A few lines of code by some random person are not going to help your company, unless there is 'deep insight' i.e. maybe some high end AI thin

I don't get this. A few lines of code by some random person are not going to help your company, unless there is 'deep insight' i.e. maybe some high end AI thing, etc.. Code needs to be owned, maintained, up to spec, documented, integrated. There's nary some random person can do remotely with little guidance that's going to help. The 'coding' part isn't that hard, it's all the details etc. that matter. You'd waste far more time and energy trying to get the right person, the right bit of code, changing it to suit the common architecture etc.. Obviously there are ethical questions, but they're moot if it's a stupid exercise to begin with.