☠️ Vibe Coding Kills Open Source

[jbz@indieweb.social]

☠️ Vibe Coding Kills Open Source

｢ When OSS is monetized only through direct user engagement, greater adoption of vibe coding lowers entry and sharing, reduces the availability and quality of OSS, and reduces welfare despite higher productivity. Sustaining OSS at its current scale under widespread vibe coding requires major changes in how maintainers are paid ｣

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494v1

#vibecoding #opensource #ai

[hopeless@mas.to]

@jbz There's another side to that, which is having AI available to follow maintainer direction and work at any time on stuff the maintainer cares about, is actually a big help.

The results must pass CI and whatever other testing was going on when the maintainer did it alone.

Are contributors really going to be arsed to publicly send in AI fueled junk without a profit motive.... they would be running it themselves, it's not in their interests either.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@jbz cc @mcc I believe this fits with one of your threads from some time ago, albeit with a different angle?