Cheap Code, Expensive Reviews - AI's effects on our software commons

Most developers are using AI tools in some capacity now, whether for writing boilerplate, debugging, or navigating unfamiliar codebases. But while writing code has gotten faster, reviewing and maintaining it hasn't necessarily gotten easier.

In this panel, we'll discuss how AI is shifting the day to day reality of software engineering. We will look at how maintainers are balancing speed with code quality, what happens to open source maintainers when the barrier to submitting a PR drops to zero, and what skills actually matter when syntax is cheap.