Please, these tools are NOT FULLY OPEN SOURCE. They are source available, yes. But they lack the licensing conditions of free software, because the code that is used comes from the models which came from software that contain almost every license, no matter if free software, source available software or even proprietary software. Second and even more important, no human can review a codebase that is changing that fast. How can something be considered open source if humans cannot review it, because code is changing too fast? Finally I also see free software as political statement for acting ethically, but the way we use generative neuronal networks these days is everything but ethical. Even if I like the idea of taken things away from companies that took our freedom away first (I really like), it does not cost us zero dollar. In fact, we pay a lot. There are tons of such projects now, every single one requires companies to build more mega and giga data centers, all of these require a lot of energy and many projects will just die in some time and were wasting all the energy for no gain. We have to pay the bills, no matter if we use the vibecoded apps or not. Since I bought my new PC early enough, I am not affected for the next years, but I still fight for those who did not have my luck. Please don't forget the externalized costs in the math. I am not even speaking about the social costs that come on top of that.
Why not just vibecoding addons to make docx documents fully compatible to LibreOffice or adding missing features until the LibreOffice team handcraft the features? Costs much less energy than building a complete new app, is less buggy and has much more value for those who really rely on these features. Probably because it does not get so much attention and other ego-stuff. Also think about this: the projects look pretty much like "implementing low hanging fruites". The development will slow down as more spaghetti the code becomes and as more in detail the functionality has to be accurate. It is easy to create a GUI, it is easy to create basic features as selecting parts of an image, but it becomes hard when multiple tools play together for a specific outcome. Right now nobody knows if they will ever reach the same feature quality of the original applications (not speaking about code quality and resource usage, just about feature comparison from end-user perspective).
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