In basically all private companies LLMs have been forced with no mercy by management, who LLM companies usually offer discounted prices for, and who've usually never even programmed or haven't done it in decades, and so they do this "use it or get fired" bullshit with them But libre/open source software is volunteer run and non-profit, no one there can be forced into using LLMs with that level of violence, and so what they're doing is basically just bribing leader figures of important projects that we need and depend on and try to create a sort of FOMO or sunken cost fallacy thing. they offer specific leadership figures special AI plans who then go to the projects they're working on and (since they're influential and powerful in them) implement pro-LLM policies in them so they can use their toys. it's literally bribing but not even with money, it's like if drug lords could bribe senators with their own crack. It's fucking pathetic.