Even without vibe coding, writing an app from scratch has always been the easier/easiest part. The hard part is maintaining the app and keeping it alive over the years.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It always amazes me when a project has a maintainer for longer than 10 years.

[–] farooqkz@realbitcoin.cash 3 points 6 days ago

I always have said. Open Source shouldn't mean free labor. I personally develop open source software and get paid. And I am really against advocating that because the project is open source, the maintainer is not supposed to get paid and do it in their free time, voluntarily, and as a hobby.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe they work as expected and are feature complete

[–] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

you forgot /s

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

To be fair: This study looked at the repos after flathub had announced to not accept these apps any more. I would say it is surprising that development didn't stop everywhere immediately after that.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 39 points 1 week ago

well of course they were. it's hard to update or scale AI built crap because the vast majority of the time the agent will deny even building it and then re-write whatever it previously wrote from scratch.

[–] staircase@programming.dev 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Without reading the article, I assume this is because creating a successful app takes commitment, and vibe coding lets you code without commitment.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 15 points 1 week ago

Churn is [now] easy.

Maintenance is [still] hard.

[–] corbindallas@fedinsfw.app 8 points 1 week ago

hahahaha

app flameout in record time