Mike Vizard talks with Madelyn Olson of AWS and the Valkey project about how AI agents can help open source maintainers handle growing contribution volumes. Olson explains that maintainers are using AI to backport fixes, triage pull requests, support older releases and manage repetitive work so they can focus on project direction and code quality. The conversation also explores rising AI-generated PR volume, vulnerability remediation, contributor onboarding, prompt design and why maintainers need constrained, trusted agent workflows.