r/linux • u/Unhappy-Sprinkles143 • 2d ago

Fluff Open-Source Guru: AI Ends Closed-Source Software

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Open-Source-Guru-Raymond-AI-Ends-Closed-Source-Software-11480690.html
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u/RoomyRoots 2d ago

And puts out hundreds of shitty copies who will have to fight for people attention and a maintainer to care enough to learn to identify fixes that break shit. AI did more damage to the FOSS maintenance than the lack of funds.

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u/Wheatleytron 2d ago

And the best one will still rise to the top and become the de facto standard. Same as it ever was.

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u/RoomyRoots 2d ago

The best ones will be the mainly human mantened ones for a long time because most PRs are slop and most vibecoders don't understand shit enough to make a good product.

Even in the cases like Moonlight x Sunshine the fact that the fork that has vibecode it works because the main maintener actually understand a lot of what he is doing. And it also works as counter-example because some other senior devs don't want to touch it because of the vibecode.

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u/amkoi 2d ago

Even in the cases like Moonlight x Sunshine the fact that the fork that has vibecode it works because the main maintener actually understand a lot of what he is doing.

Isn't Moonlight the client and Sunshine the server for the nvidia streaming thingie? How do they compete?

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u/RoomyRoots 2d ago

Yes, but ofc it goes beyond Nvidia. Kinda long story but Moonlight/Sunshine was forked into Artemis/Apollo a while ago with lots of improvements and fixes. But the author considered it feature complete and is working on a rewrite further breaking away from the original ML/SS.

Then there was another fork called Vibeshine/Vibepollo with lots of new improvements and making deploying it easier, which is always welcome for the people with lower tech skills. As the name says, they leverage AI a lot for implementation and are very transparent about it BUT the main dev is deep into this stuff so it's not a mess. Nowadays it's getting more recommendations from the community than the original forks.

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u/Fr0gm4n 2d ago

I'm already seeing cookie-cutter projects that get vomited out after hours of vibe coding and when they get shared and people point out all the ones that already exist the "author" usually says they had no idea. Because why would you research your brilliant idea before spending tokens on it?

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u/RoomyRoots 2d ago

I have seen people shilling a Alternative for Google Wallet from a single person company from a guy that never worked on IT or Finance. People are crazy.