How vibecoding is destroying the open source that feeds it
March 3, 2026
The snake eating its own tail
A year ago, vibecoding was a curiosity. Today, it’s an industry. Millions of developers — or rather prompters — generate entire applications by describing what they want to an LLM. In minutes, an API, a frontend, a deployment. Magical.
But behind this magic lies a dirty secret that nobody wants to face: every line of code generated by these AIs was trained on millions of open source projects — projects that are now dying.
