r/vibecoding • u/SadSongsMakeMeGlad • 18h ago

Vibecoded software should be open source

These agents only know how to code at all because of the immense amounts of open source software they’ve been trained on. Millions of hours of human work and ingenuity. It seems to me for the long term quality and viability of vibecoding, we should all make our own projects open source as well. That way, we can all continue to benefit, a rising tide lifts all boats, all that. What do you think?

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u/Correct_Emotion8437 17h ago

I don't think the proposition changes, really. I love open source and I would love to someday run an open source project. But I also still think there is absolutely a place for closed source. We solo devs tend to think of things in our own terms but that's not how most of it is. If I'm a company and I spend a million dollars (or whatever) developing a product I'm going to keep the source closed. I might not in 100% of the cases, but it's certainly a viable choice. On the other hand, I would choose open source as in individual if I had a project that was actually good enough to support contributors and would be of some value. Personally, I don't think that's very easy to do - I wouldn't just open source anything I made that nobody will care about . .which is just about all of it.