The maintainers can now do all the work themselves.
With the time they save using AI, they can get much more work done. So much that having other engineers learn the codebase is probably not worth it anymore.
Large scale software systems can be maintained by one or two folks now.
Edit: I'm not going to get rate limited replying to everyone, so I'll just link another comment:
With the time they save using AI, they can get much more work done. So much that having other engineers learn the codebase is probably not worth it anymore.
Large scale software systems can be maintained by one or two folks now.
Edit: I'm not going to get rate limited replying to everyone, so I'll just link another comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765785