I spend a fair amount of time on open source and one thing I noticed is that in real pieces of software it doesn't look like all these 10x and 100x AI engineers are anywhere to be found.

VLC has like 4000 open issues. Why aren't the AI geniuses fixing these? Nobody has ever any actual code to show, and if they do it's "here's an LED that blinks every time my dog farts, I could've never done it on my own!". I'm feeling like Charlie in that episode of It's Always Sunny with his conspiracy dashboard. All these productivity gurus don't actually exist in the real world.

Can anybody show me their coding agent workflow on a 50k LOC C codebase instead of throwaway gimmick examples? As far as I'm concerned these things can't even understand pointers