I 100% agree with this in a individual person sense, but in a humanity sense someone does understand linux very deeply and is very intentional on how they change it which to me is how I gain trust in it.
does trust change when the entire SLDC is AI?
There are systems still in use from the 1960s (maybe before) - the original authors are at least retired and likely dead. I question how well the replacements understand all that. Sure they have had to dig in and understand some parts, but what about the parts that just keep working and don't need new features?
If your answer is "yes," do you think that's inherent to the (metaphysical?) fact of it being AI or to specific limitations to current AI? If the latter, what changes to AI would let you trust it?
The question is does AI understand well enough to maintain that thing for whatever maintenance I need to do in the future?
But it also kind of sounds like you're just saying that there's a scalar of "get a little better" before you'd trust AI with something.