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Vibecoding turned open-source software projects into a spam attack vector.

Before that you could expect high quality projects from a huge percentage of all apps, so acting on a message like "hey, I made this app, please try" was often a good use of your time.

These days there are at least 10x more of such apps, so assuming rationality the default reaction to "hey, I made this app, please try" will eventually become to not even look, or people will only look at apps from well-known creators.

Considering this it might be that rather than "democratizing" the creation of software vibecoding made it harder for a newcomer without reputation or reach to get their app in front of the eyes of others.
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Dev Dave 🧑‍💻 1mo ago

But wasnt this with internet as well, back then, and now?

It seems a natural progress of evolution, that makes some things easier, some things harder.

Which from a game theory point of view is logical. You cannot make things easier without making some things harder, because it would throw off the balance.

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1mo ago

Chat bots pretending to be AI coders don't seem to help democratize anything. The internet potentially democratizes stuff compared to TV/radio by having more channels, all else being equal. "All else" has to not be "equal" to have a situation like today where TV and the internet are level enough to compete as a "rational" person's potential platforms.