[neko-kai]

On the contrary, I hope vibe coding revives Linux desktop into a truly usable platform.

e.g. Vibe coding defeats GNOME developers' main argument for endlessly deleting features and degrading user experience - that features are ostensibly "hard to maintain".

Well, LLMs are rapidly reducing development costs to 0.

The bottleneck for UI development is now testing, and here desktop Linux has advantage - Linux users have been trained like Pavlov's dogs to test and write detailed upstream bug reports, something Windows and macOS users just don't do.

[Cthulhu_]

Is the maintenance due to code or due to people / politics / etc? LLMs won't change that.

Also it's a formal system and process, "vibe" coding is anything but. Call me curmudgeony (?) but I don't think "vibe coding" should be a phrase used to describe LLM assisted software engineering in large / critical systems.

[croes]

You don't think the current prices of LLMs will stay?

At some point the investors want to see profit.

[rvz]

> On the contrary, I hope vibe coding revives Linux desktop into a truly usable platform.

Oh sweet summer child.

> Well, LLMs are rapidly reducing development costs to 0.

And maintainance costs along with technical debt rapidly goes up.