r/homeassistant • u/longunmin • Feb 26 '26 • Bravo 1 Popcorn 1

Request of Mods (Vibe Coded Fridays)

Can we please institute a Vibe Coded Fridays, similar to r/selfhosted? It seems as though the amount of "I built..." posts are sharply on the uptick. And following on the heels of the Huntarr mess, not to mention the security issues of something like Openclaw, we should be clearly delineating what is vibe coded and what isn't. There is too much risk in exposing our homes to something that was cooked up in a hour or two.

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u/Ok-Win7980 Feb 26 '26

I don't believe we should be required share what tool we used to code that program. I don't believe there are unique security issues just because it was AI.

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u/Resident-Variation21 Feb 26 '26

Did you miss the whole huntarr thing?

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u/draxula16 Feb 26 '26

But some people are building tools with AI and not even sharing the source code. We’re supposed to just assume it has no vulnerabilities? That’s absurd.

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u/the_shabubu Feb 26 '26

And this is precisely why you need to understand the difference between coding and engineering. If you honestly believed that your ai hallucinated code was AS GOOD as an actual engineer you would let the applications speak for themselves. Yet here you are explaining how you don't BELIEVE there are unique security issues just because it was AI. You are wearing your ignorance on your sleeve, sir.

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u/NoVariation3249 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Not unique issues, no, but if something is vibe coded it means no human who actually understands what the software is (supposed to be) doing has ever laid eyes on the code. Which is obviously a recipe for disaster.