Mastodawn

Cloudflare’s vinext project is a vibe-coded replica of Vercel’s Next.js, built off Vercel’s open-source unit tests.

By AI-cloning functionality, Cloudflare may have created code that’s not copyrightable, effectively laundering licensing terms. What began open-source might now be unlicensable.

I raised an issue with the Cloudflare project because this is a direct challenge to the principles of open-source.

Clarification on MIT License Validity for AI-Generated Code https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext/issues/717

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John Hardy

When you use AI to clone an open source project and you validate it against the original project's unit tests you're not creating a new open source project, you are in effect subverting the terms of that license and converting it into something else which may not be licensable at all.

Coining new terms:
#vibelifting
#vibelaundering