@esparta I dunno. People are free to do whatever they want. Drew decided to fork at vim8, I believe. I think, there's another fork that is vim9 but pre-ai.

My current thinking is that focusing on the ai involvement is counter-productive. It was always easy to hide ai involvement. Like, just don't tell it was an ai code and people would think you're just bad at programming. Non matter how much we all wish ai bubble burst the tools are here and probably are gonna be around for a little while and will probably improve even further. So it will become even easier to hide ai involvement. I think it's better to focus on the quality of contributions and emphasise human understanding of the contributions. This effectively covers both ai slop and bad contributions by humans.

In a way ai code is like cgi in movies. We hear complaining about bad cgi all the time but it turns out when cgi is good no one notices, and people even like what they see. BTW, movie people learned to distance themselves from cgi, you can find many accounts where producers said there was no cgi when in fact there was a lot of it. It just was good so people didn't notice and didn't complain. Developers will learn to do the same.

And it kinda sucks. I fully acknowledge the ethical concerns of how ai came about and environmental impact of using ai. I understand those who're opposing ai on those grounds. Though, I'm afraid they're gonna be severely disappointed when they're gonna be tricked to use ai-produced code specifically because they’ll train ai users to hide ai usage by their severe reaction.