Two of the authors are engaging on bluesky regarding the "clickbaityness" of the paper:

https://bsky.app/profile/gaborbekes.bsky.social/post/3md4rga...

(Note, I receive a thanks in the paper.)

author here. indeed, a more preceise title could be

> given everything we know about OSS incentives from prior studies and how easy it is to load an OSS library with your AI agent, the demand-reducing effect of vibe coding is larger than the productivity-increasing effect

but that would be a mouthful