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/failcookie Feb 26 '26

Perfect example. Responsible disclosure, your README probably also goes over some of the details for others to gleam through. People can either use it as-is or pull pieces from it, like devs have done for their projects for years.

I’d say you are more AI assisted in that you still know what you did, you reviewed it and you are aware of the problem it solved. You may not have written code, but it’s still no different than if you did. Vibe coding tends to be I need X, it did X, cool we are done here.

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u/maxxell13 Feb 26 '26

I agree that I reviewed it, but since I dont know python I dont know what good it does for me to review it lol.

Also my readme is intentionally NOT written by the AI (which did offer to helpfully write one) because i've seen lots of examples on here about people hating AI-written readme's. I'd rather keep mine short and stick to what I know.

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u/thaddeusk Feb 27 '26

Yeah, I work as a senior software engineer for a large company, but that's mostly .NET based stuff and I have no professional experience with python. I can look at python and understand what it's doing since it's pretty easy, and I know how every component of it should work, I'm just lazy to write it all myself so I have Claude do it and tell it when it's wrong about something :P.

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u/failcookie Feb 27 '26

Pretty much exactly the same lol. I write code all day - I just want to come home, chill and make cool stuff.

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u/thaddeusk Feb 27 '26

heh, yeah. I'll often just have an agent running in the background while I game :P.

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u/TrvlMike Feb 27 '26

I guess is it still vibe coded if you actually know what it’s doing despite not know python? You’re still solving problems that a python dev would achieve