There's also just hiring people to do maintainership work on the same salaries (or even greater salaries) than the average software engineering position. Most of the time the excuse is "I don't have the money, training or team large enough to continue maintainership and so I used AI products."

The XZ incident happened precisely because the entire computer science field is held up by "one dude in Nebraska (TM)" while the rest create psychological torture devices to extract profit (yes Windows 11 should be classified as a torture device). Capitalists also benefit from AI being held as the scapegoat for all these issues rather than the structural faults that were built up over decades of disinvestment.

Both Chinese and American vendors have brought down the costs of running models by so much. I really don't think hoping for this to pass is a viable strategy.

but there are thousands of pissed off software engineers from this, they don't want to compile a new kernal spitefully?