AI Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again

I've been vibe-coding a lot lately. Like, a lot a lot. Maybe not quite the "AI psychosis" Andrej Karpathy recently joked about on No Priors, but not wildly far off either. But the I vibe, the a thought recurs, i.e. that AI coding agents may be about to make free software matter than it ever has. I mean free software in Stallman's sense: software that gives users the freedom to run it, study it, modify it, and share it. Even for the relatively few who were aware of the distinction, it has felt mostly academic for a long time.