The amount of posts when somebody introduces their program here on HN, that may have been LLM coded but that does not neglect the often massive amount of time the "dev" put into it. And yet, its all dismissed under this single negative "vibecoded" label.
I noticed that we are seeing more and more closed source programs, because people do not want to open source LLM generated code, out of fear that people start a negative PR loop against their program. And this reflects back to people not even releasing their programs into the wild.
There seem to be a inability of people to tell the difference between somebody spending a few prompts on making something, vs somebody spending months on 10.000's of prompts to make a great working program. It all gets thrown under that "vibe coded" bus. When its ironic because most code by now is LLM coded anyway. The amount of people hand coding is now probably a absolute minority.
Mostly, I think if you are promoting outside of your main area of expertise and couldn't have written it on your own, people don't want to put stuff out there and portray themselves as an expert in a subject matter that they relied heavily on AI assistance for, because it wouldn't be honest to other contributors to said project or other similar projects that were done without AI assistance.
So, I think I'd be fine with taking a look at and contributing to "vibe coded" projects so long as it is disclosed the level of expertise on the underlying subject matter that the repo maintainer has and the extent of the AI assistance.
Then it may be a genuine learning opportunity for them (and for me) and more power to them and it's a shame if it doesn't get published, but I can see why socially there is a pressure not to do it.
how/why that has happened is another story. I don't see the value in giving away my valuable thinking and ideas when it isn't appreciated and this massive-theft-founded AI company culture of our time thinks it is entitled to everything we create.
[Controversial edit: I don't think of myself as a slave, no matter what others may try to convince me to believe.]
At least in my company, it is. I have vibe coded three apps that are far better than the competition: an Xpra/Wprs alternative that's faster and much more reliable, an alternative to the VSCode Git Graph extension that is much faster and has tons more useful features (e.g. drag and drop to move/copy/rebase commits which is a feature I always wanted), and a Mac app that lets you use cheap MIDI controllers to control your screen brightness, volume, media playback etc.
I use them all every day and they're all extremely reliable, and much better than the existing tools. One was entirely vibe coded and the other two were unfinished projects that I vibe completed (probably 70% vibe code).
I suspect a mountain of people and companies have tools like these but they haven't open sourced them because a) I used company tokens so there's admin to get things open sourced, and b) it almost feels like there's no point... you can just vibe code your own version to your exact liking. Do you really want to use mine?