I would guess we'll start seeing more open source projects with much tighter restrictions on who can participate. Closed contributions and heavily automated (or even closed) issue tracking is probably already happening and will spread faster.

I entirely sympathize with these maintainers too. I've had 2 instances where an LLM has surfaced a bug and I just couldn't get myself to open a PR and dump more work onto these maintainers, even after manually writing one up (neither were critical bugs, it's fine).

Seeing popular projects (like hermes) having 5k issues and 5k pull requests is madness.

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Marsymars 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Seeing popular projects (like hermes) having 5k issues and 5k pull requests is madness.

It's actually got nearly 30k open pull requests!

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user43928 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Modern problems require modern solutions.

Why not set up a triage bot with only read permissions on the project and restricted network access in order to triage issues?

Perhaps this way one could turn the influx of spam into a source of useful information.

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jeremyjh 4 hours ago | parent [-]

These exist. Very elaborate systems in many cases. Otherwise Hermes would probably have 30,000. Like a lot of agent tools they merge a ton of slop though so I wouldn’t consider them leaders.

	▲	user43928 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		So, what is the problem then? Genuine question. Is having a prioritized list of reported issues still not useful in practice?
	▲	Marsymars 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Otherwise Hermes would probably have 30,000. It already does!

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staminade 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

On the other hand we'll probably see a lot more fully vibecoded projects gaining traction, because of the rate at which they can move once human design and review gets taken out of the equation.

For example, I recently came across Hucre, https://github.com/productdevbook/hucre, which is a JS spreadsheet library apparently developed entirely in the past few months and which has already gained 2.2k GH stars.

Is it any good? Who knows, but the alternatives for spreadsheet handling in JS aren't great, either being limited, semi-commercial, or unmaintained. And creating a new one without LLM-assistance is a huge, painful, mostly thankless undertaking. It's not surprising that a zero-dependency option that promises to do everything this can do would be popular.

Everyone has had the experience of butting their head against functionality limitations of open-source libraries. Fully vibecoded libraries will be able to add functionality at a rate that human-authored ones can't. Code quality might suffer, but if a library has a feature you need, and you've got a deadline to hit, are you going to avoid using it? Is the average developer? Or the average LLM?

I think we're about to hit an interesting period of human-only projects competing with vibecoded ones, and it'll be an acid test as to whether the pro and anti claims about AI-coding bear out in terms of code reliably.