Comment by m000
9 hours ago
The real question is how much of the new wave of vibe-coded software will be able to graduate from pet project to community-maintained project.
It feels that vibe coding may exacerbate fragmentation (10 different vibe-coded packages for the same thing) and abandonment (made it in a weekend and left it to rot) for open source software.
I believe the process of accumulation of knowledge / fixes / interesting ideas will be still valid, so there will be a tons of small projects doing things that you can replicate and throw away, but the foundational libraries / tools will be still collaborative. But I don't agree with the idea of fragmentation, AI is very good at merging stuff from different branches, even when they diverged significantly.