Is it good news, or is it vibe coding?
Kdenlive is an old piece of software from over a decade ago. While we can’t be sure that all of the contributors stayed AI-free, I’m sure all of the code was vetted for quality since a lot of people are invested in this incredible video editor.
Even from an anti-AI view, I’m not sure of what to make of skepticism like yours; what if vibe coders simply lie and say they didn’t use AI? Then would you instantly give it a pass? Proof of AI-free work has become impossible due to offline FOSS models, so unless I’m missing something, all we can do is aim for quality and security by this point, I think.
I’ve heard of many projects disabling contributions, shutting down, or pivoting to closed source and naming slop code as a major reason.
If the contributions are quality, that’s great, but I don’t think skepticism is an inappropriate reaction to a sudden surge in contributions in this year of all years.
Really? What software went from open-source to closed specifically because of vibe-coding? I’d also question how long they kept up their quality… What apps disabled contributions in favor of AI slop? I’ve never heard of this.
Stirling-PDF and Episteme Reader are solid examples of apps that went freemium, but I know of no product that entirely went paid-only because of vibe-coding. If anything, Stirling-PDF was originally vibe-coded and then added traditional programmers to its team upon seeing its popularity skyrocket, from what I remember reading. I’d be curious to see your examples on the other end.
I’ve never heard of this.
Did you bother to look?
- cURL shut down their bug bounty program because of an “explosion in AI slop reports.”
- Godot sounded the alarm on the “increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it’s a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers.”
- Tldraw now automatically closes pull requests from external contributors, “due to an influx of low quality AI pull requests.”
It’s gotten bad enough that Github added a feature to allow maintainers to disable pull requests entirely.
Full shutdowns are rarer (only Cal.com and Jazzband spring to mind), because maintainers are trying to stay open and fight the avalanche of slop with AI contribution policies.
Looking at all of the above, why do you think people shouldn’t be skeptical when the number of PRs suddenly spikes?
