Every year, there is a creative writing challenge in November called National Novel Writing Month. Participants sprint to create a 50,000 word novel draft by the end of the month. Online, they spend the month hyping each other up to get over the finish line.
I think LLMs are going to enable a variant of this with open source: community flash-mobs assembled to create a clean-room implementation of popular closed-source software.
Anyone who codes for a living has seen programming undergo a completely, categorical change over the past four months. It's suddenly possible to vibe-code product features and internal tools that would have been impossible to get headcount for before.
So far, most of these efforts are solo.
What would it look like for 100 open source developers to get together and spend a month on a coordinated vibe-coded rewrite of a popular piece of closed-source software?