Looking at the scope of their code, the quality, the testing rigor etc. it's clear that they feel threatened by AI. Realistically a couple of prompts coupled with a factory of agents can replace this entire codebase in a matter of hours.

Furthermore, how will they prove whether code is AI generated or not?

And... I was correct. See their other PR

> QEP 429: Add exception to the AI policy for trusted contributors - #388

Aka only the trusted maintainers can use LLMs for speedups, the rest can suck it? Very mature behavior from the maintainers.