[hombre_fatal]

> I'm not surprised throwaway mobile apps do benefit, while relatively mature python packages do not.

Right.

I don't think you even need cynicism or whatever you felt you were having impolite thoughts about:

I'd expect the top mature libraries to be the most resistant to AI tool use for various reasons. They already have established processes, they don't accept drive-by PR spam, the developers working on them might be the least likely to be early adopters, and -- perhaps most importantly -- the todo list of those projects might need the most human comms, like directional planning rather than the sort of yolo feature impl you can do in a one-man greenfield.

All to further bury signals you might find elsewhere in broader ecosystems.

[pydry]

I would expect nearly all of these developers to be technologically sophisticated and for most of them to have tried AI asssisted coding and to be unafraid to use it if they thought it brought some benefit.