Yeah, exactly.

As someone who has been working on a large open source project for literally years, while trying to support a family, the hardest thing is time to devote to this project (which, absent capitalism, is what I'd spend my life doing).

AI can allow me to instead increase the speed at which I'm delivering the project I'd already architected, designed, and laid out with my other devs. I don't have the money to pay myself to work on it, much less other devs - and my bank doesn't take repo stars as mortgage payments unfortunately.

I hate the AI industry - but that's a problem with the economics, not the tool.

I'm happy to label that my project uses AI assistance, but bans just make me realize that wherever is banning it isn't more concerned with shipping a solution instead of a crusade against LLMs.