A.I. and vibe coding destroy open source | The Linux Experiment

I don’t know the content of it, it’s paywalled.

Also, I’m pretty not willing to write more about that topic on here because it will pretty much lead me to write an article for 5 hours and nobody will agree with it. FOSS is probably one of the biggest and deepest topic of disagreement ever. I mean, now we also do have AI.

So yeah, mixing both topics and bikeshedding about all of that with random people in a written form is definitely not on my list of things I do wish to spend time on. I already need to push back hard enough on a daily basis and it gets quite tiresome to slow people down…with AI adoption.

Quickly glancy over the video’s screenshots:

Yes, AI doesn’t give anything back. Nothing new. I do have a few thousands of thorough answers on StackOverflow that nobody truly gave me anything in return[1]. And some of my answers today are probably coming from data trained on my own answers posted there publicly.

As for Adam Wathan, I’ve been an early supporter (bought the book), saw the rise and downfall of Tailwind Labs. I listened to his interview on Primeagen’s channel too and it was very saddening to see that happen. The business model is also just not sustainable because no Twitter hype-bro will ever pay the project in any form or shape. Even less when it comes down to actual businesses.

Again, begging for donations is usually not a way to go either for those projects either: this is just not how software works, especially nowadays (value is pretty much down to zero). Been there myself (trying to support some of the people I do/was rely(ing) on). It’s quite a captain obvious situation here overall.

TLDR: nothing new for people in the field and shallow of a research as a whole.

1. nvm I’m lying, I got 60€ over my 5 years of helping there fulltime ↩︎