AI-Native Open Source — Open Source Built with AI

Starting with the 'vibe coding' issue mentioned by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025, a year later, fundamental changes driven by AI have arrived in software development. This has led to a major crisis for many software companies that initially saw great opportunities with AI. In 2025-2026, the open-source ecosystem faces an unprecedented crisis. Three Reasons Why Open Source is Collapsing 1. Silent Exploitation — Nobody Comes Anymore GitHub calls the open-source crisis in the age of AI "Eternal September." Eternal September : In the early 1990s, Usenet was a university student-centric community. Every September, new students would flock in and post low-quality content, but existing users would educate them, and things would normalize within a month or two. However, in September 1993, when AOL opened Usenet to the general public, "September" never ended. But the real crisis isn't a flood of AI slop PRs. It's that nobody comes at all. AI has already learned open-source code. Developers h