Right after I posted, I realized this hole in what I was saying.
Reflecting a bit more, I agree with you, but only in cases where the author of the open source project doesn't aggressively shun the use of AI in their own work. Folks that refuse to engage with AI (even open source project maintainers) will find themselves lacking the skill with AI that others have. So I can imagine a future where those open-source maintainers will get pull requests written with AI that they themselves could never produce.
I'm not sure I believe my own argument here, but I think it follows from "using AI to produce something worthwhile is a skill".
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Right after I posted, I realized this hole in what I was saying.
Reflecting a bit more, I agree with you, but only in cases where the author of the open source project doesn't aggressively shun the use of AI in their own work. Folks that refuse to engage with AI (even open source project maintainers) will find themselves lacking the skill with AI that others have. So I can imagine a future where those open-source maintainers will get pull requests written with AI that they themselves could never produce.
I'm not sure I believe my own argument here, but I think it follows from "using AI to produce something worthwhile is a skill".