I'll be even more truthful about what I felt this past few months: AI emboldened bad or inexperienced devs to push a huge amount of code, way more than what they were able to, and of higher quality that they used to produce. Still, if the overseer is bad, the code won't be great (LLM are inconsistent when it comes to code quality, sometimes they find nice tricks but don't generalize them, and you have to steer them or to modify the code yourself, and sometimes they take baffling decisions, especially when the code is OOP heavy).
Those devs use to be way less visible (and I'm not saying only in the open source world, in enterprise it was the same), or grew out of their inexperience. Nowadays they produce a lot of code, often good enough, sometimes very dumb, but almost never of the quality you want to find in open source, and they are _very_ tiring to speak to because they do not understand what they have produced, and don't seem to understand plain English.
Don't get me wrong: I like the tool. It improved my life in a lot of ways, the main way it did was cure my imposter syndrome by making those less visible developers more visible. I like the fact that this tier of developers exists, especially in the corporate world. Still I think a way to filter their contribution to avoid reviewers burning out,at least for now, is necessary.
