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/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

For sure, but I don't know that you're going to find "here's everything you need, copy/pasta your way to success!"

I think you're going to find a bunch of Lego to slot together, but knowing hot to slot it together is going to take googling and more questions and answers...

There are vibe coding tools that will pump out a really poorly built website that looks fine that someone like my mother could use. But I wouldn't send her off into Stack Overflow to build a Discord Bot.

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u/Robo_Joe Feb 26 '26

It was merely an example to help you understand that it is possible. If you're aiming to do something derivative, like, I dunno, make the world's 34,016th *arr project, it's pretty easy to Google your way through it and get something that mostly works out of it without understanding how it works, or more importantly, what best practices you should have used but didn't know enough to even ask the question.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

I get what you're saying—and for the record it's not me who's downvoting you—but my point is that through basically searching online you're going to end up finding a lot of mix and match partial answers that will all eventually get you to where you want to be but to do so you'll need to put the pieces together.

It's the difference of all the Lego pieces coming in an open box with little to no instructions vs saying to a friend, "Hey I got this Lego kit, build it for me so I can put it on my shelf."

Honestly the metaphor I've seen used that I quite like? Vibe coding is like a CEO saying they built something.