AI mediation between end dev and open source definitely reduces the incentives for maintainers that look to build community, visibility, reputation, collaborate with others… I also love AI so not sure what the solution could be.

I understand that there's a lot of open source projects that are massive collaborations.

There are also a lot of open source projects that are simply one-man shows. And llm should be massively helping those and I really don't see that so far.

I would say they should be a massive gain to the open source community cuz let's face it. The people that do open source are simply going to be different than the people that just feed on it.

Llm should be a massive enabler to open source. It should permit easy porting between architectures, programming languages and interfaces to a degree that simply wasn't possible before

Again, I'm not really seeing that.

I think vibe coding might de-emphasize software as a end product. That part is more doable.

But the general purpose machinery, the substrait we work on? That's hugely open source today, and will gladly accept and make use of that platform innovation that you can offer up.

The authors talk about it being harder to get traction. And that's both true because of LLMs, and also, has been the case for a while now. Theres so much open source already, so many great tools, that it takes real effort and distinction to stand out & call attention to yourself.

I don't understand this article. ChatGPT made Google search and SO irrelevant so vibe coding is killing open source? ... That's a stretch.

> The LLM will not interact with the developers of a library or tool, nor submit usable bug reports, or be aware of any potential issues no matter how well-documented.

Arn't these interactions responsible for the claimed burn-out suffered by open-source maintainers? If you want interaction then, I don't know, go to a conference? Again, I don't get the issue. Seems like a good thing! Users are able to find answers and solutions to their quesitons more efficiently--all the while, still using the open-source library. The usage chart is still seeing tremendous growth! Developers are still using the library to solve their problems. It seems like exactly what open-source was intended for.

The issue to me is that, the incentives for investing in open-source have changed for some maintainers in such a way that they're no longer in alignment with their return on their investment. Maybe there are fewere people interacting with them and so fewer people to discover how "great" they are. Maybe fewer eye balls on their resume. The point is, open-source was a means to an end. And, so, frankly, I don't give a shit.

LLMs are making open-source technology accessible to more people and that's a good thing.

Yes, it will kill open source—at least as we know it.

I’m convinced that GitHub and GitLab will eventually stop offering their services for free if the flood of low-quality, "vibe-coded" projects—complete with lengthy but shallow documentation—continues to grow at the current rate.

The trend of rewriting existing programs ("vibe-coding" a rewrite of $PROG in Rust, for example) threatens to undermine important, battle-tested projects like SQLite. As I described in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821246.

I’m quite sure developers will increasingly close-source their work and black-box everything they possibly can. After all, source code that cannot be seen cannot be so easily "rewritten" by vibe-coders.

Open source and free software was the largest transfer of wealth in the form of techne freely from the craftspeople to the business people.

Knowing how to write a database could make one fabulously rich. Now the person who knows how to make and promote a simple crud app backed my MySql becomes the rich one, while the db people beg for donations.

Linux killed Sun/Solaris and SGI Irix

Developers have voluntarily moved further down in the chain of value - now just describing themselves as primarily a business liaison who can translate to code. All the computer whispering necessary to do all this is freely available and digestible for free.

LLMs are just the expected endpoint of this.

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