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The debate about AI in coding seems to be over. This applies everywhere, from community projects to large enterprises. Soon we'll be lucky if a human even reviews the code, rather than just one or more LLMs. I don't know any good programmers who still say AI isn't helpful to them. This all happened much faster than I expected.

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source.
According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.
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Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

Projects with open codebases like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of submissions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/for-open-source-prog…

For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing | TechCrunch
AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier, but maintaining them is just as hard.

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/

My recent experience with #VSCode started very badly.
Since, it improved immensely. Now I have a couple of days of coding on some small Go projects that felt good.
I am still struggling with shortcuts. In particular `F12` and `Ctrl- -`. I am sticking with the defaults for now.

How my private projects is now: v0.0.0-rc.0 🤔
#coding #version #project #version

Are there any downsides to SQLite for small personal coding projects?

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning "programming is becoming unrecognizable" (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2026731645169185220

Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-project-mariner-team-we…

Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze
As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.