AI didn't break open source. It removed a filter nobody designed
By erickdevz · full-stack developer, Viçosa, Brazil In January 2026, the curl project shut down a bug bounty it had run since 2019. Not because the money ran out — it had paid out more than US$100,000 across dozens of confirmed vulnerabilities. It shut down because the economics of triage had collapsed.
- ▪By erickdevz · full-stack developer, Viçosa, Brazil In January 2026, the curl project shut down a bug bounty it had run since 2019.
- ▪Not because the money ran out — it had paid out more than US$100,000 across dozens of confirmed vulnerabilities.
- ▪It shut down because the economics of triage had collapsed.
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| Original publisher | Vercel |
| Canonical URL | https://erickxdev.vercel.app/en/blog/ai-didnt-break-open-source/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:04:24 +0000 |
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By erickdevz · full-stack developer, Viçosa, Brazil In January 2026, the curl project shut down a bug bounty it had run since 2019. Not because the money ran out — it had paid out more than US$100,000 across dozens of confirmed vulnerabilities. It shut down because the economics of triage had collapsed. Around the same window, the Jazzband collective, which maintained 84 Python projects, announced it was winding down. tldraw's founder flipped the repository to auto-close every external pull request. Ghostty adopted a zero-tolerance policy for low-effort AI submissions. None of these projects hit trouble from a lack of people wanting to contribute. They buckled under the opposite.
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