It’s a craft like anything else. Some people enjoy building a table and feel a sense of accomplishment telling their friends “I built this.” Other people just want a table and buy one from Ikea

It's useful indicator in these days of useless slop coded shit. Few things are a bigger waste of my time than reading about someone's proudly "ai"-generated pile of garbage.

My question is, if they did decide to use AI someday, would they remember to update README.md in the same commit? I would probably forget.

It's like those labels of protected origin they put on high-quality artisan foods from the EU.