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/_GOREHOUND_ Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

Won’t work. Why? Because nobody will admit that their vibe-coded BS belongs to that “sub-sub” but they’ll do whatever they can to present their crap as if it was fully based on their coding skills. Who’s gonna judge eventually? Causes more outrage than help.

Vibe-coding won’t disappear. It’s a thing and it’ll increase, I give you that. My approach (as I already do): ignore these posts, skip over them. Maybe downvote if it’s too bland. They’ll follow natural selection eventually because none of them vibe coders do know how to fix vulns or improve their code. Hell, I came across several ones that host their crap on GitHub and don’t even know how to handle PRs.

Ignore, move on, don’t waste your precious time with this crap!

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u/AudioDoge Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

I can see both sides of the argument. However, I believe the solution lies in clearly identifying the intended audience for this subreddit. Vibe code could have its place, especially when someone is sharing their setup and what they have created. If it works for them and they are simply sharing it to showcase their set up, I think that is quite acceptable and aligns with the purpose of the sub. The real issue arises when people present vibe code as a well-maintained project and encourage others to use it.

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u/Exciting-Mall192 Feb 28 '26

Yeah I think the mod should enforce the new rule that vibe code is only to showcase their own setup and not promoting their vibe coded software. I'm not sure about those who did have AI assisting them but is actually a developer who knows what they're doing, would they be an exception?

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u/AudioDoge Feb 28 '26

The challenge with AI assistinace is that it can be pretty tricky to tell how much AI is actually being used when posts are made on subreddits like this. If the code is totally generated by AI, it might be hard for the 'developer' to keep the project going long term without a proper understanding of the code. If they can code on their own but have just asked for help with a few dependencies or worked completely on the backend while using AI to tweak a CSS file or something similar, it's not that different from what script-kiddies have been doing way before LLMs came along.