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@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

☠️ 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

arXiv.org

Vibe Coding Kills Open Source

Generative AI is changing how software is produced and used. In vibe coding, an AI agent builds software by selecting and assembling open-source software (OSS), often without users directly reading documentation, reporting bugs, or otherwise engaging with maintainers. We study the equilibrium effects of vibe coding on the OSS ecosystem. We develop a model with endogenous entry and heterogeneous project quality in which OSS is a scalable input into producing more software. Users choose whether to use OSS directly or through vibe coding. Vibe coding raises productivity by lowering the cost of using and building on existing code, but it also weakens the user engagement through which many maintainers earn returns. 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.
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Oblomov
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@oblomov@sociale.network replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

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

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degenerating degenerate
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@hopeless@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@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.

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