Mostly because AI isn’t capable of doing a perfectly good job without humans at this point. Vim may have started using AI as part of the development toolchain so that tired people working in their free time for free can propel their own work. To me this was always going to happen whether it gets committed discreetly or not. I don’t think people will tolerate it if these commits hurt the long term, reputable stability of Vim.

We can stop pretending that AI isn’t maybe discreetly in many and perhaps eventually all the projects that we love. Intolerance and toxic harping on open source is still the bigger problem