Vibe Coding Is Having Its Maker Movement Moment

Vibe Coding Is Having Its Maker Movement Moment In the first 21 days of 2026, 20% of all submissions to cURL's public bug bounty were AI-generated. Not one found a real vulnerability. Daniel Stenberg, the creator and maintainer of cURL, shut the program down. Mitchell Hashimoto banned AI-generated code from Ghostty entirely. Steve Ruiz closed all external pull requests to tldraw. These are not fringe reactions. These are some of the most respected engineers in open source — people who have spent years actively welcoming contributions — drawing a line. If you're paying attention to the "vibe coding" conversation, this week's data is the most concrete signal yet of what that era actually produces in the wild. And I've seen this before. Not with AI — but the pattern is familiar. The Maker Movement Ran This Play First In 2013, the maker movement was at peak energy. 3D printers, Arduino boards, Raspberry Pis, laser cutters. "Everyone can build" was the headline across every tech publication