Reflecting on the recent shift of a number of Linux FOSS projects embracing AI slop, I think there's an aspect to this that's being overlooked. Apathy.

A lot of these FOSS devs are overworked, burned out and otherwise checking out mentally with maintaining their codebase, and that was before the proliferation of LLM chatbots. It's often a thankless job that has little to no compensation for the time and effort spent, and then the onslaught of code submissions from Claude started flooding the git pages.

Frankly, I'd check out too. The constant drama over code submissions causing a ripple effect, the community being toxic and full of drama... If I were on my own with this, I'd sincerely go "fuck it" and sell out to the nearest tech corp so I don't have to deal with the constant misery anymore. Doubly so if there's a payout structure involved. (I personally think this is what Linus Torvalds did.)

Not saying that's okay in any form or capacity to justify it, but I can understand the reasoning behind it. We need to address *this* if there's any hope of reclaiming FOSS from big tech.