I believe open-source software will continue to provide a refuge for artists.

Yes. My work is open source, and pretty unchanged. We get some AI pull requests now that take longer to review than doing the work ourselves.

I think a key difference is that there was never any tolerance for bullshit in my team's code base.

We don't have thousands of points of boilerplate, or a big pile of "not invented here" crap code.

So we don't have somewhere for the AI to really shine.