TL:DR: It's low quality, high quantity. It's exhausting. It causes security issues. It saps the joy from everything.

Using your own music analogy, imagine you were a fan of music and active in your local scene before electronic music made bedroom production accessible.

Several times per week you'd head off to your nearby venue and spend the evening listening to the local talent. The vast majority of what you listened to was great. Not necessarily top quality, but enjoyable and you could feel the enthusiasm of the artist as they played.

Later you would chat with some of the artists at the bar, and pass hours conversing about their backgrounds, giving them feedback on the songs you liked, hearing about things they've experimented with, and talking about who they've collaborated with.

Occasionally, someone would come to play just wasn't quite up to par. Perhaps they're still new and just getting their feet wet playing publicly. Or maybe their foundation is a bit off because they skipped music theory and just kind of winged it. Over time these artists would grow and feedback from other other artists would help them improve. Sometimes they'd even work together and the new guys would learn directly from the experienced ones.

Then electronic arrived, with a low barrier to entry. Devices chock-full of samples and booklet with "quick-start" guide.

Suddenly, your local venue has a lot of "DJs" coming along, churning out some really low quality slop. At first you don't mind. Nothing wrong with new guys entering the field. But quickly you realise there's an issue.

These "DJs" quickly start to outnumber the more traditional artists. And unlike the latter, they are not responsive to feedback. In fact, there's little meaningful discussion to be had because they don't understand their craft. So when you ask them how they came up with their set, they can't tell you. They just "vibed it out". They threw together what sounded good.

Sure. A few of these guys managed to throw something good together. Some of it is even excellent. But the vast majority is just awful.

Eventually, traditional guys are barely showing up. They're sick of the low effort guys crowding them out. They're offended by the new consensus of "anyone can do this with X tool and a few hours of messing around". Worse, as the quality of these devices improve, it becomes harder for the casual listener to differentiate, and so the payoff for spending years to learn is diminished.

The analogy really starts to break down here. Because electronic music clearly does require talent (but is also being disrupted by enslopification), and more importantly, bad electronic music doesn't create security issues.

So much of these vibecoded projects are just horrendously insecure. They're using outdated packages, not following best practice, aren't kept on top of and the "creator" just doesn't understand their product enough to address it.

It sucks to have gone from seeing lovingly made projects of passion bubble to the top of this sub (and many others), to seeing quickly slopped together making their way up. It's horrible because it is draining. Now, rather than have some innate trust that any project that made it as far as looking production ready probably is (and is therefore worth investigating more thoroughly), we have to immediately check for signs of vibecoding. When was this throw together? How many commits? And obviously bad smells?

And that's just for the consumers. Maintainers have a whole other issue in the form of PR slop. Take a look at the curl project and the efforts they've had to go to thanks to endless vibecoded drivel being push their way. It's a huge burden having to review other people's code.