From Chesterton’s fence to Chesterton’s gap
｢ The cost of creating lines of code has dropped to ~0, which causes people () to submit 10k line PRs without even opening an issue first. The thing is, these PRs make sense. They are not bad! They’re just not necessary. They add features to projects that nobody asked for, add tools that are marginally useful, add configuration scaffolding for IDEs that barely anyone uses ｣
https://stephantul.github.io/blog/unfence/
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