So this has to be a meaningful PR for the open source repository? You can't just invent arbitrary coding challenges?

This seems like trying to get free code contributions with a weird sort of gambling mechanic attached.

Ive seen more than one flakey startup do this to fluff adoption metrics and perceived activity. It was frustrating

Nothing is free, of course, since we transparently pay per task (and as previously stated, the pay is very generous). There are certainly guidelines for what kinds of tasks you can submit to our platform, but beyond that, you can make any verifiable coding task in any of our qualifying open-source repositories.

We also definitely do not require you to write new code into the repo. As I said, you can adapt existing merged commits into coding tasks.