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That picture is obviously a slide without context, but in that talk I explicitly mentioned that I myself am a user of LLM tools, ans that they do help me with maintainance.

The main threat is people being completely irresponsible and just spamming maintianers leading them to burnout, which now requires very low effort to do thanks to the LLMs they have access to. And that's not even their goal! They just don't want to spend any effort into educating themselves.

The framing here is important. Saying that the threat is "People with LLMs" are the threat makes it too easy to move into Us vs Them territory, assigning blame where it doesn't belong, and forces conclusions that aren't defensible...

... Open source communities have been built on the assumption that contribution is personal and difficult. That there's a high bar that limits volume. We don't have the tools in place for anything other than that...

... The problem is not the person using the tool... The problem is that none of us know how the roll The problem is that none of us know how the tool should be used or whether it should be used at all...