imaginima/ iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty ImagesFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET's key takeawaysTop open-source maintainers find that AI has suddenly become much more useful.There are still legal and 'AI slop' problems to overcome.By year's end, AI programming tools should be much more reliable.With open-source software running pretty much everything, you might think that multiple developers maintain most of the important programs with help from corporate sponsors...