Well, it's their choice. If you care about the process - i.e. it's a hobby for you, or a spiritual experience, then it's totally valid to go without AI.

But I feel it's a bit crazy not to use any AI assistance to develop real code these days, if you care about outcome. You can get to result much faster, and have a higher quality solution, if you use it right.

The problem for open source is low quality slop, not AI assistance. Not sure what's the solution though.

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	▲	kmike84 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		heh, I've written/contributed to a lot of open source over last couple of decades; it's not the point. My point is that no-AI assisted development is becoming very niche; it's not a right approach if you want to get things done, and AI-assisted doesn't mean lower quality. And if you against paying evil Anthropic and OpenAI corporations you have options like local LLMs.