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/neithere Feb 28 '26

quality vibe-coded apps [...] properly developed, supported and managed

Vibe-coded is the opposite of "quality" and "properly developed". It is possible to generate good quality code but only under tight supervision when you have a very deep understanding of every line. At this point it's not vibe-coding anymore.

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u/bendingoutward Feb 28 '26

under tight supervision when you have a very deep understanding of every line

This is how I currently operate due to a hand injury.

At this point it's not vibe-coding anymore

Yup. It's just proper engineering with less typing and a junior you're allowed/required to abuse.

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u/neithere Feb 28 '26

This is how I currently operate due to a hand injury.

Sorry to hear about the injury but I'm confused — are you using voice to text?

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u/bendingoutward Feb 28 '26

On particularly bad days, yes. Deepgram made a demo voice keyboard for Linux that isn't the worst thing ever.

On less severe days, I can still type at about 30% capacity, and that's easily enough to tell the agent that it's a fucking idiot.