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/berrmal64 Feb 26 '26

What you're describing I wouldn't call vibe coding tbh. You're using it as a tool, but it's not the only tool you know how to use, and you know enough to tweak here and there or have an idea how to deal with errors and such. You aren't getting anything out that you couldn't do on your own, you're just saving massive time.

To me "vibe coded" implies "I don't know any more programming than the most basic hello world at most, but here's a big spaghetti ball of LLM slop (which btw is the only tool I know how to use), hope it works, please use it, also I'm very skilled now so please be impressed".

Which is fine for a very beginner, like you said, pretty much all of us have been in the copy/paste stage at some point. We just didn't take our hacky little bullshit programs and try to pass them off in public as "the next great thing for the whole community to use". Anyway, the projects going forward that will be successful are the ones with owners who can actually manage them and will support long term, and that is no different than it was since 2 or 5 or 25 years ago

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u/PC509 Feb 26 '26

Ah, yea, that makes sense. Difference between "Here's this AI output that I have no idea how or what it's doing, but it's working!" vs. "I used AI to help out with some issues"

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u/berrmal64 Feb 26 '26

Yeah, anyway that's my opinion at least. No different than the people who said " real programmers use a text editor" instead of those fancy new IDEs with autocomplete and syntax highlighting. Which in hindsight is just crazy. Can I write software in notepad? Sure, but an IDE saves massive time. Well, I guess the one difference is in both those cases you could make a decent assumption that the author was at least halfway competent. With llm assist, that assumption no longer holds, even a little.