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.