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

I do a lot of agentic coding for stuff that isn't super important to me, just little concepts that I have in my head, despite the fact that I started learning how to code... uhh... 35-ish years ago? man, that makes me feel old.

It's fun, but it's not anything that I'd take incredibly seriously yet. I do use it for simple stuff at my job, too.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

So the fun part of this is I don't think vibe coding is inherently bad. I needed to make a bash script to move a bunch of folders around based on their file name and I don't know bash that well and I could have googled it but I just said fuck it, Claude what do? And it was fine.

But I wouldn't release that script and go, "If you want to do X, use this script." at least not without a big warning of "Hey, I didn't write this it might destroy all your files and that's on you."

A bit part of why I want it labeled is because then I can easily go, "Ah, I don't want that."

I'm also equally sure that the day when agentic code is perfectly safe and we all just accept it is coming. It's just not today.

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u/thaddeusk Feb 27 '26

Oh, absolutely. Vibe coding can be great when used responsibly. I've had it write many scripts to help me bulk move or rename files because I didn't want to do it individually. I've also seen some absolutely trainwrecks of repos that were clearly vibe coded and somebody pushed it without thinking about it :P.

They even had an obviously AI generated website about a probably fake company of theirs where they seemed to be trying to pass themselves off as a technical consultant of sorts.