I am not a Bitcoin Core developer, but I am a Bitcoin Core contributor as a bug reporter. I ran into a bug in 2021 and my report became part of a NYDIG bounty and the patch fixing it was the first merge for a new dev name Chris in 2022.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/22596

Not all cypherpunks write code. It’s more about choosing the cypherpunk ethos and taking whatever actions you can to further the movement.