Having the competence to put together a good patch used to be a proxy that you were motivated to stick around and fix any regressions you caused and that you we

Having the competence to put together a good patch used to be a proxy that you were motivated to stick around and fix any regressions you caused and that you were worth investing in, as a community member. Or, to put it another way, in the old days in order to be a 3k-LoC PR wielding psychopath intent on making your colleagues miserable with churny aggro diffs from hell you at least had to be good at coding. Nowadays, you only need to do the psychopath art — Claude will happily fill in the PR for you.