Slop-Free Software is So Hot Right Now

Welcome back to the 2026 season kickoff of Vibe Coded! In this episode, I cover the phenomenon of how open source software projects are either fending off or embracing the onslaught of agentic coding services, and the ways in which the technology is splitting the F/LOSS community asunder. I just keep thinking, it didn't have to be this way. But here we are!

📢 Hosted by Jared White

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Links

• Fresh Fusion Podcast episode 128
• Recording on Linux: Ardour
• Shame! Open Slopware List
• Hurray! No-AI Policy List
• Hurray! EVi (vim fork) on Codeberg
• Shame! systemd discussion on disallowing genAI: Closed as not planned

Creators and Guests

Host

Jared White

Writer, Researcher, and Pro-Craft Activist. Media Producer at Intuitive Future

What is Vibe Coded?

A show about the perils & pitfalls of creative intellectual automation; and why the future of good Internet vibes is for the humans, by the humans.