> there’s still community benefit in having a canonical version somewhere, rather than everyone writing bespoke solutions for themselves.

There is sharply reduced benefit to the maintainer, however as they are now buried in slop bug reports and PRs, and a bunch of people with no context and a Claude subscription think they can do it better.

I expect a lot of open-source maintainers will walk away from that particular bargain in the near future

Would you prefer we leave it entirely to the AIs? That’s an option, probably the default option. If you’re opposed to it, then why advocate for it?