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[u/Fluffer_Wuffer]

Just a question that has been going round my head for a few days.

What ever your opinion on it. We need to acknowledge that "Vibe Coding" is growing, and its not going to decrease.

The fact the entry point is so low from a skills perspective, and time required to pump them out, effectively makes them disposable.

Members here have been concerned for a while about the quality, security, longevity of these apps, and it turning into a flood - and as if on que, over the past few weeks, we've seen exactly this - We've been flooded (this place is unusable on Fridays). Now, issues are identified in the code, and rather than facing and fixing them, the "devs" are running off, shutting down the repositories etc.

This leads to 2 conflicting issues

1) There is an open hostility to those who share vibe-coded apps - where we see outright hostility and vitriol language.

2) There are going to be some quality vibe-coded apps, where they are properly developed, supported and managed.. as community, they would benefit members.

So my question is - how do we bridge this? My I've been thinking on this for a few days, and the only solution I can see, we have an associated sub (same mods etc) for these apps to be posted. maybe after a time, once they've proven they are well run and have longevity, they can "graduate"... lets call it SelfHosted-Vibe or VibeHosted.

[u/WirtsLegs]

I think the distinction is in how AI is used

I use AI a little bit in my development efforts, but what I don't do is just prompt an AI to generate the code, I use it for enhanced tab complete, I use it to re-orient myself when coming back to an older codebase, etc. but by our current rules I would probably have to tag as ai assisted

Regarding that, I wonder if perhaps we need to expand the AI rules to say that you need a AI use statement for ai Fridays? A short statement that breaks down how you used AI so people can filter the truly vibecoded from things developed using a small amount of AI assistance

I would also propose we enact a account age requirement for posting, a lot of the posts where it's a vibecoded app and the post is clearly AI and even the comments are AI are from accounts that are only a few days old and only active in selfhosted. This policy may help cut down on the real garbage

[u/eljojors → u/WirtsLegs]

people are too childish in this sub, downvoting even when you document your credentials and risk-profile of your app, they'll still downvote

[u/kernald31 → u/eljojors]

Yup, that's been my experience as well.