[nberkman]

I get the concerns, but there's a flip side nobody's talking about: what about experienced developers who had years of ideas bottled up and never had the bandwidth?

I used to think open source was something I'd focus on when I retired. Instead I'm doing it now. I built Clippy (https://github.com/neilberkman/clippy) from scratch, a much better bcopy, that fixes a real gap in pbcopy, and it hit 200 stars and Homebrew core in seven months. Neither of these would exist without AI assisted development. My DocuSign Elixir SDK sat basically unchanged from 2021 to 2025, other than a few external contributions. I knew it needed a full migration of the OpenAI code gen layer, LiveBook examples and a million other tweaks. With coding agents I implemented everything useful I could imagine.

Am I the only one? There must be other devs out there resurrecting stale projects or shipping tools they never had time for.