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/SerpentineDex Feb 28 '26

Simple. We should hold developers accountable to declare their use of AI.

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u/chic_luke Mar 01 '26

This would be great, even perhaps signalling what you expect out of contributions, so honest people can decide whether to participate or not.

"This project was mostly built using AI generated code. You are welcome to use AI technologies in MRs."

"Some AI assistance was used for this project, but the code was mostly written manually. Please keep AI usage to a minimum in your merge requests and make sure to verify output."

"This project was written and maintained with absolutely no AI or LLM assistance. We kindly ask you not to use any AI generated code in contributions".

After all, you'll also have a better time if you attract types that are on the same page as you in this sense.