Ironically, this is even happening to LLM inference engines.

Llama.cpp and other community projects are drowning in manpower shortages.

Yet dozens of vibecoded “forks” keep popping up, to support some specific thing and fragment the community. There are also a number of commercial “Tech Bro leeches” that sap attention from the main project and send support tickets their way, while contributing precisely nothing back, with Ollama being the most notorious.