With free software you can validate the code quality and tweak and share code as you wish. With AI slop becoming more prevalent this means choosing quality software is much easier. This is especially true given that many proprietary software companies are switching to AI which will harm them in the long run.

In short, free software is human focused. It doesn't have economic incentives for the most part so it will always be as good as the community around it.

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I can't say I'm happy with the early demise of instant messaging software either (RIP msn messenger), but in that case you at least get a few years of use out of it in exchange for your time and brainspace, which may not be the case for vibecoded github projects that stop getting updates within a month of release. Of course it matters how likely it is to break too; I'd be less wary of something that is self contained and doesn't use the internet than a third party frontend to a major website, for instance.

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