The highminded part of me says it's bad that this is happening, especially given the freedom Linux still provides from the other, more locked-down options. And that you may still choose to be a maintainer or contributor without being all-in on AI, and it sucks to impact "innocents" that way. And at least what I assume is Torvalds being judicious and not purely vibe-coding is better than people who type "make me a kernel" and expect the world.

The petty part of me says "okay, your project won't be part of the anti-AI ideology, glad to see your project suffer because of it then, even if just in this way."