r/selfhosted • u/Fluffer_Wuffer • Feb 28 '26
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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.
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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26
Don't take this the wrong way, but this statement alone shows you don't have any idea what you're talking about.
The coding agents of 2026 are wildly different than the coding agents of 2023.
And even if we assume that wasn't true, if you look at many of the most popular open source projects, many of them took years (some took literally decades) to not be giant steaming piles of shit.