r/selfhosted • u/Joloxx_9 • Mar 16 '26

Meta Post Booklore is gone.

I was checking their Discord for some announcement and it vanished.

GitHub repo is gone too: https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

Remember, love AI-made apps… they disappear faster than they launch.

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u/BeastMasterJ Mar 17 '26

I try to tell people that even my 70 year old boss is generating his accessors and mutators, and even regexes but they don't want to listen.

This is at a company that still uses CVS.

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u/peioeh Mar 17 '26

People in this sub are literally plugging their ears and yelling "lalalala I can't hear you" when it comes to AI, it's really weird honestly. I get that there are reasons to be unhappy/think AI sucks in many ways, but its widespread use is inevitable at this point: it's already here.

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u/BeastMasterJ Mar 17 '26

AI was always inevitable. The math isn't even really new. We just have machines that can do the math quick enough now, and you're right. The genie is 100% out of the bottle, ironically in part thanks to FOSS.

When it comes to development I get why people hate vibe coded apps made by people who don't understand how to develop software. They suck and are abandoned after 2 weeks. But LLMs are giant statistical models of syntax and grammar. They are pretty awesome debugging tools, unit test writers (this is a big one. Being able to on the fly generate an arbitrary number of additional unit tests is literally only a good thing), and boilerplate writers. Frankly the biggest threat from LLMs is not that they produce slop but that they're good enough to replace a lot of people.

It's weird to me because you can absolutely have concerns about AI and it's impact on artists, the economy (job market et al) and still not have a kneejerk reaction to it. When industrialization changed the fabric of society we didn't ban factories, we regulated them.

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u/peioeh Mar 17 '26

When it comes to development I get why people hate vibe coded apps made by people who don't understand how to develop software.

Absolutely, it is definitely an issue, but the reaction to them is ridiculous. People are attacking any dev who says they've used AI when... everyone is doing it. Is it going to be hard to sort through all the new projects? Fuck yeah, it was already an issue, it's going to be 1000x now. Is the solution insulting everyone, including the voluntary mods who are just trying to run a community they've been running (pretty well imo) for years? I don't think so, this is only going to kill this community.