HAMi Community Evolution: When AI Writes Code, What Makes an Open Source Community Valuable?
A long-term participant’s observation on HAMi’s growth (2021 open source, 2024 CNCF Sandbox, 2026 CNCF Incubating) and what makes an open source community valuable in the AI era — AI lowers the cost of producing code, but not the cost of building consensus. Tomorrow’s maintainers are consensus builders.