I think this comment misses that OpenAI hired the guy, not the project.

"This guy was able to vibe code a major thing" is exactly the reason they hired him. Like it or not, so-called vibe coding is the new norm for productive software development and probably what got their attention is that this guy is more or less in the top tier of vibe coders. And laser focused on helpful agents.

The open source project, which will supposedly remain open source and able to be "easily done" by anyone else in any case, isn't the play here. The whole premise of the comment about "squashing" open source is misplaced and logically inconsistent. Per its own logic, anyone can pick up this project and continue to vibe out on it. If it falls into obscurity it's precisely because the guy doing the vibe coding was doing something personally unique.

▲

croes 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

So creating unsafe software is the new norm?

	▲	joquarky 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have worked over two decades creating government software, and I can say that this is not new. Security (and accessibility) are reluctant minimum effort check boxes at best. However, my experience is focused on court management software, so maybe these aspects are taken more seriously in other areas of government software.
	▲	revolvingthrow 26 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I’d bet good money that at leasy 2/3 of all software ever made, the decision makers couldn’t care less about security beyond "let’s get that checkbox to show we care in case we get sued". Higher velocity >> tech debt and bugginess unless you work at nasa or you're writing software for a defibrillator, especially in the current "nothing matters more than next quarter results".
	▲	tacomagick 31 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yes pretty much. See the Windows 11 security vulnerability chaos going on.
	▲	isoprophlex 29 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Always has been.

▲

29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

[deleted]

▲

kristofferR 27 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Not only that, his output is insane, he has more active projects than I bother to count and more than 70k commits last year. He's probably one of, if not the best, vibe coding evangelist.

https://github.com/steipete

It also probably didn't hurt that he favors Codex over Claude.