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Mario Zechner: “Infrastructure that's falling apart”

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“You have infrastructure that's falling apart, and you have software that's now very, very buggy compared to before.”

— Mario Zechner, The Wall Street Journal, 22.05.2026 ↗

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Vibe coding+Open source → Maintainer crisis* (2026)

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