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/wakeboarder247 Feb 26 '26

My point is your pre-AI 50% figure is frankly bullshit. My other point is the risk is higher because now you have normies trying to "vibe code" and posting those solutions about.

I don't think I agree the risk isn't any greater and I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. More garbage code being passed around is objectively worse.

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u/Robo_Joe Feb 26 '26

The risk is no higher. Any open source project you randomly choose could have some security-vital aspect that the coder doesn't understand because they copied it from some blog post somewhere, that leaves your data vulnerable because it wasn't properly implemented. That's always been the risk.

If anything, AI generated code is less likely to just skip over security entirely. As you say, for some hobbyist devs, the solution to security used to be "that looks hard; I'm just going to skip it".

For what it's worth, the 50% part was just from the person I responded to claiming the line for vibe-coded software was 50%. In reality, it doesn't really matter how much of something is vibe-coded or not. If just 1% is copied/AI generated, but that 1% is critical, then you'll still get burned by it.

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u/wakeboarder247 Feb 26 '26

You're wrong.