Comment by sph

1 day ago

I reckon we will soon see a growing movement of maintainers forking popular open-source projects to the point before vibecoding was introduced to the development process.

I can definitely see myself supporting this. Vibecoding promotes the uncontrollable growth of features, and thus bugs, when the vast majority of software benefits from stability. It should be possible to be done with development, barring security patches and bug fixes.

Counterpoint: AI makes refactoring so much easier. Many of our monolithic code bases have gotten smaller and more organized because we were too lazy to refactor.