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a tweak: open source is ABOUT people … with quality as a means to that end we have the rare freedom to practise the craft + the joy of building with friends, for its own sake. I hope open source communities flourish – we must look after our mental health more than ever. but a cautionary note 👇

I am seeing at least two leaders of open source projects crashing out right now b/c: 🚩 they DO feel they have to compete – w/ vibe-coded alternatives 🚩 they feel alone + outgunned 🚩 (my guess) their unchecked use of LLMs means they are 'butter stretched over too much bread' roe.dev/ama #ama

I wouldn’t call myself a leader of FOSS, but I’ve been doing it for 30 years. I also make my living at it, so, yeah, we do have to compete with vibe-coded crap (and we are inundated with pure-AI pull requests and triage GHSAS.) I would say we’re crashing out, but it’s pretty overwhelming right now.

* wouldn’t say Argh.