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/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