alt Hacker NewsIf you can vibecode a product that sells, I can vibecode a free open source one just as easily, probably even easier since I can just ask the AI to copy the existing one. Software is trending towards being free and open source.
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pydry • today at 8:52 AM
Half of the value in open source was that it was used by lots of people and all of the nasty edge cases and bugs have been ironed out.
If LLMs were performing according to hype then yes, virtually all paid software would be gone by now and there would be a high quality FOSS equivalent of all of it.
Yeah, and then who maintains it?
Maintaining vibe coded software is going to become hours spent with Claude not your users.
That's going to be the difference. It takes nothing to rebuild the software, but listening to users, iterating, handling issues. That's boring.
The ones that win will be the ones that stay the course, not the ones that were built the quickest.