'Vibe Coding Kills Open Source'

Four economists across Central European University, Bielefeld University and the Kiel Institute have built a general equilibrium model of the open-source software ecosystem and concluded that vibe coding -- the increasingly common practice of letting AI agents select, assemble and modify packages on a developer's behalf -- erodes the very funding mechanism that keeps open-source projects alive.
The core problem is a decoupling of usage from engagement. Tailwind CSS's npm downloads have climbed s