he literally said that he wants contributors with big LLM subscriptions who can use those expensive models. Which is to say: he wants to only play with the rich kids.

https://thenextweb.com/news/torvalds-ai-assisted-by-tag-utterly-stupid-open-source-summit

You don't grasp the arms race. The more slop code is added, the fewer the contributors who understand it will be. The "deep learning" inside the model becomes the same outside.

What remains is that only contributors paying for the frontier models will be able to work in the codebase.