Yep fair point. In my case I don't think codex team was really considering outside contributor PRs except bugfixes, plus my idea of "plan mode" was prob not what they wanted to ship in their product. But maybe I should have tried!

> but the need to keep your changes current is a strong motivation for getting those changes incorporated upstream.

But the cost of contributing changes made by AI is higher: * high chance of the being just rejected because code made by AI, or PR made by AI * so contributing would require carefully preparing a human-made patch (but that becomes much more work than telling an agent to just upgrade my fork) * there is still a high chance for the patch to be rejected or just ignored for months/years, like before

Also, there are much more vibe coded projects which are open source, but the author has no interest in maintaining, so issues/PRs will just be ignored.