[bluejay2387]

Does it seem to anyone else that author's have created a definition for 'vibe coding' that is specifically designed to justify their paper? Also that their premise is based on the assumption that developers will be irresponsible about the use of these tools ("often without users directly reading documentation, reporting bugs, or otherwise engaging with maintainers") so that it would actually be people killing open source not 'Vibe Coding'? Just a guess on my part, but once developers learn to use these tools and we get over the newness I think this will be great for open source. With these tools open source projects can compete with an army of corporate developers while alleviating some of the pressure on overworked under-rewarded maintainers.

[korenmiklos]

Author here. We have the productvity-increasing effect of AI coding agents in the model (you're right, we're using "vibe coding" as a catch-all here). Our claim is that rewards to OSS developers (visibility and recognition in the dev community, future sponsorships, upsells to business users etc) fall faster than productivity increases. OSS devs lose the incentives to create software for others and respond to their needs.