> That being said, to outright ban a technology in 2026 on pure "vibes" is not something I'd say is reasonable.

The response to a large enough amount of data is always vibes. You cannot analyze it all so you offload it to your intuition.

> It leaves stuff on the table in a time where they really shouldn't. Things like documentation tracking, regression tracking, security, feature parity, etc. can all be enhanced with carefully orchestrated assistance.

What’s stopping the maintainers themselves from doing just that? Nothing.

Producing it through their own pipeline means they don’t have to guess at the intentions of someone else.

Maintainers just doing it themselves is just the logical conclusion. Why go through the process of vetting the contribution of some random person who says that they’ve used AI “a little” to check if it was maybe really 90%, whether they have ulterior motives... just do it yourself.