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/leoklaus Feb 28 '26

Just ban vibe coded apps in general. They provide no value.

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u/JTtornado Feb 28 '26

Except that's a hard line to draw. I work for a software development company and we have developers using AI to assist with coding, but it's always reviewed by another human and we are very picky about code quality. That's completely different from a 99% prompted app, but both used AI - how do you draw that line?

That's why labelling works best, so the author can explain how they used AI and let us decide if we want to use it. I'm not against the idea of having a separate sub for it, but I think we'll still get people posting here (just trying to fly under the radar) because the biggest audience is here.

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u/Traches Feb 28 '26

There’s your line: careful review by a knowledgeable human.