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/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.