Contributor Responsibility and Review Cost in the Age of Code Generation
Rust Internals [Unofficial]
February 15, 2026
kornel:
> If I just submit the groundwork, it gets rejected as a pointless change for the sake of change. However, if I submit refactorings plus a new feature together, I often get told off for changing unnecessary stuff at the same time, and not splitting PRs into small enough pieces.
This is where I wish GitHub had better handling of commit-by-commit review. I similarly most of the time do two-commit reviews where the first refactors and the second implements.
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