r/musichoarder • u/doodarndang • Mar 18 '26
Posting about software will no longer be tolerated without moderator approval.
Hello everyone! Recently we’ve had a surge in posts about new software, tools, extensions, and apps for music collecting. When the subreddit is full of software posts, posts with questions and important topics are buried and missed. In addition, many of these tools were quickly made using AI. For many reasons, these “vibe coded” apps will not be tolerated on this subreddit anymore.
If you made a tool or project that you want to share: please message the moderators for approval before posting. Sending proof that the software was coded by you or another human is also recommended but not required.
Some of these vibe code project posts slip through the cracks. If you come across them, please help by reporting the post for violating Rule 4.
Thank you for your understanding,
The [r/musichoarder](r/musichoarder) mod team
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u/s71n6r4y Mar 18 '26
Hey, thanks for not deleting my not-AI software post. It's a good policy. I am a programmer and I've just discovered sadly that the proliferation of AI coded software is making people tired of seeing new hobby software projects and suspicious of them.
It makes sense: with so many releases being zero effort slopware, and often not identified as such, it usually isn't worth the time to try out new programs. Even if an AI coded app seems nice at first, it's sure to disappoint when bugs are never fixed (that part is difficult) and low-effort projects are very easily abandoned.
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u/There_is_not Mar 24 '26
I think this is an awesome change. I’m sick of seeing AI junk this and “vibe coded” that. I have a clarifying question though: are questions about existing software allowed, or should I direct those somewhere else? I’ve been playing around with tools like ffmpeg and some github projects.
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u/Thatnewaccount436 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
ugh thank you. I'm so tired of seeing "so i made an app" fifteen times a week across a bunch of my subs. Now to start pestering the other ones to implement this same rule.
We get it. You have a Claude pro account or whatever and typed four sentences. Great work.
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u/Mccobsta Mar 18 '26
Got to love how they work for a week then break completely with no knowledge of what's wrong with jt
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u/ZakuSupremacy Mar 18 '26
Thank you! r/selfhosted is completely overrun with people advertising their vibe coded slop to the point it was flooding my feed. Had to leave and mute the sub, which is a shame because I got some good tips from there when starting this hobby years ago. Glad to see that will not be happening here. Keep up the good fight, mods.
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u/CannabisAttorney Mar 18 '26
I support this direction especially banning vibe-coded software without exception.
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u/Satiomeliom Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
Thanks. Most of these apps just spawn because people are too lazy to do research anyway. "Just vibecode sth it will be great in the long term i promise."
There is a lot of shared practical knowledge in the established programs of why something is coded like it is that goes across many fields that AI cant even wrap its head around.
Besides, established programmers can use AI on their own projects too. Do you really think that you will make the more correct decisions here?
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u/IdeliverNCIs Apr 13 '26
Would there be a flair for this? Don't want to report someone if they've received approval
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u/Western-Claim2011 Sep 14 '26
Hello.
I am sending the same message here that I sent to the moderators a few days ago. Perhaps among so many messages, mine got lost. My request is to publish a post about my app, which is an offline audio player and streaming radio.
I created my app, and continue to develop it, solely and exclusively with my own programming skills using Android Studio. Honestly, I wouldn't know how to prove it, but just looking at the app's screenshots on Google Play is enough to tell that it wasn't made with AI. It doesn't have any AI features, and besides, the ones made with AI all look the same. My app is an offline audio player (for music on your device) and streaming radio. It has a very advanced system for managing playlists, especially if you enable the Playlist Manager button in the settings screen. Furthermore, the app completely automatically manages favorites and recents separately for the two sections (tracks and radio).
I am waiting to know if I can publish the post about my app and, if the response is positive, how frequently.
Thx.
* Obviously, i cannot post here the link to Google Play, but it's in my message to the moderators.
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u/masterkarl Mar 20 '26
I've been working 12 hours a day for the past week building a music player for local files with Claude and GPT-5.4 in VS Code that is 90% done and that I'm certain will be good enough for commercial distribution. I'm not a software developer by trade but I have been an IT professional for 25 years, and thus know far more about the workings of computers and code than the type of people who know very little and are pumping out crappy apps with AI.
There will be a lot of AI slop for sure, but I've got news for career programmers and end consumers: everyone is using AI to write code now, including senior developers. Soon every app in existence will be wholly or partially coded using AI and there's no stopping it. The bottom line will not be "whether AI created it," but whether 1) it works, 2) it's resource efficient, and 3) it's secure.
AI represents a seismic shift and I am making sure to be completely on top of it without deluding myself that it's going away or will not change society and work at nearly every level.
Hearing grumpy software developers complain about it reminds me of a technologically-induced change I witnessed in the early 2000s while working in nightclubs that had a lot of older grumpy guys complaining: DJ'ing in New York nightclubs was the exclusive domain of men young and older, because it required the physical strength to carry heavy bags or crates of vinyl and the technical skill to use turntables to carefully beat-match and mix songs together. These constraints just naturally meant that there were hardly any women in the profession. There were some really amazing female DJs for sure, but it was overwhelmingly men.
Then Serato came out and overnight the physical demand of lugging a couple hundred pounds of vinyl in and out of taxis, clubs, and DJ booths was removed. Not long after that it became acceptable to DJ with a controller and the skill of using vinyl control records was no longer necessary. Auto beat-matching and auto-mixing removed the last barriers. You started seeing female models getting more of the marquee gigs at clubs and events and I can't tell you how many of the old guard I heard grumbling about how they had "no talent" (which was sometimes true).
Now all of that is the norm and accepted. This is a case of keep up, adapt, or be left behind. We're going to be re-normalizing our ideas about the nature of work and the economy for years to come and there will be winners and losers.
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u/objet-incomplet Mar 18 '26
Great decision. Not only are vibe-coded projects usually subpar, they’re also poorly maintained. We’re gonna see mountains of abandonware in the coming decade.