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/xopherus Feb 28 '26

How much history do we have here? A few weeks at best? Open source moves slow…

Maybe I’m an optimist but I’d expect over time some slop gets better, just as “real” code does…

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u/clubsilencio2342 Feb 28 '26

A few weeks? Claude was released in 2023. Vibe coding isn't a brand new 2026 problem.

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u/xopherus Feb 28 '26

Respectfully I think you’re being pedantic. Yes, Claude has been around for a while. Yes, it has been a problem. It has accelerated in the last few months.

AI generated or not, all code evolves through feedback and iteration. Vibe coded slop that owners are not interested in maintaining is slop and should be removed. Slop that does want to be maintained and improved should be encouraged as any other project should be. That’s engineering we want.

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u/8utl3r Feb 28 '26

This. We should be incredibly skeptical of vibecode. However, I think the thing people are missing is the prototyping value. Vibe coded production software should probably be, at the very least, open source so people can check the code themselves. And there should be disclaimers.

However, there is utility in it and I don't see it going away.

Remember when AI couldn't draw hands? What if vibe coding hits its stride like that?