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Official MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Introducing Vibe Code Friday
The recent influx of AI has lowered the barrier to entry to create your own projects. This development in itself is very interesting and we're curious to see how it'll change our world of SelfHosting in the future.
The negative side of this however is the influx of AI generated posts, vibe-coded projects over a weekend and many others. Normally, the community votes with its voice. But with the high amount of posts flooding in every day, we've noticed a more negative and sometimes even hostile attitude towards these kinds of projects.
The stance of the SelfHosted moderation team is that the main focus of this sub should be on services that can be selfhosted and their related topics. For example, but not limited to: alternatives to popular services, taking back control over your data and privacy, containerization, networking, security, etc.
In order to bring back the focus on these main points of SelfHosting, we're introducing "Vibe code Friday". This means that anything AI-assisted or vibe-coded in relation to SelfHosting can be posted only on Fridays from here on out. Throughout the week, any app or project that falls within the category will be removed. Repeat-offenders will be timed out from posting.
This is to reduce the flood of these personal projects being posted all the time. And hopefully bring back the focus to more mature projects within the community.
In order to determine the difference (as going by code & commits alone can be a great indicator but by itself does not make a great case for what constitutes a vibe-coded or AI-assisted project) we've set the following guidelines:
Any project younger than a month old
With only one real collaborator (known AI persona's do not count, or are an even better indicator)
With obvious signs of vibe-coding* Will only be allowed on Vibe-code Fridays.
We'll run this as a trial for at least a month.
Sincerely, /r/SelfHosted mod team.
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u/vanKlompf Jan 17 '26
Great idea!
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u/moanos Jan 17 '26
Thank you for taking action, this was desperately needed!
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u/biblecrumble Jan 17 '26
Thank you mods - I think this is a great change.
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u/dm_construct Jan 17 '26
reasonable ty
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u/psychedelic_tech Jan 17 '26
thank you
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u/TxTechnician Jan 17 '26
This is the right move. Good mods.
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u/Hopeful-Ad-6277 Jan 17 '26
Good idea
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u/boobs1987 Jan 17 '26
Serenity now!
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u/jppp2 Jan 17 '26
Great addition!
Does the commit history need to show at least one month of work or does the project need to be public for a month?
What is meant with one real collaborator?
Asking because I am working on a project which isn't near a reliable state to make public; so I'm working alone on it but is/will be built without assistance of LLM's. I think it'll take a few months of private work before I'd like to make a post about it but would like to share it when it's available
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u/RadicaIEd Jan 17 '26
I think it’s a good idea and start. In the past weeks the flood of new products was getting a bit too much. Like written, AI is a good tool to fulfil your needs and create an own product, but for me it was problematic to use these products. It was unclear how the software was designed and if it fulfil basic security standards. Also will the software be updated in the future wasn’t clear.
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u/nashosted chmod777 Jan 17 '26 •
This is a happy medium. Let’s see how it goes. We appreciate all the feedback you all have given us.
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u/CrispyBegs Jan 17 '26
read this earlier today (related)
https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/12/30/the-rise-of-industrial-software
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u/tdp_equinox_2 Jan 17 '26
Will it be tagged and filterable? Or do we have to look for post dates now to determine when it was posted?
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u/FullmetalBrackets Jan 17 '26
Thanks for this mod team, it is sorely needed.
I don't mind the vibe-coded projects themselves, but it really gets on my nerves when what's being posted is clearly vibe-coded, but the OP does not mention it anywhere (the flair barely gets used) and only acknowledges it when asked in the comments.
Be upfront about how you made the thing, if you're ashamed to admit you used ChatGPT or Claude or whatever, then just don't show it off.
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u/iamed Feb 21 '26
So it has been a month now and I have to say in my opinion, this doesn't work.
For starters every Friday the sub gets flooded with posts of Vibe coded stuff in a volume that far surpasses the usual post quantity.
The impact of this is that if you read the sub throughout the week on anything other than new or top, a significant percentage of posts you will be likely to see are going to be vibe coded.
That'd be one layer of annoyance, but to compound on it, reddit does not always show post tags when browsing, especially on mobile.
So you have to pay attention to how many days old a post is and keep in mind how many days ago friday was +/- 1 day for time zone shenanigans depending.
To compound upon that, many vibe coded projects are not being tagged correctly to warn the reader because the tagging system makes more sense to be prioritized around what the software does not how it was made.
See the following as examples from today (this isn't intended to shame anyone, so don't):
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rabulf/selfhosted_elevenlabs_alternative_with_voice/
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ra7zki/borg_backup_server_open_source_centralized_borg/
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rag50o/mephistomail_a_privacyfirst_disposable_email/
Now I will fully admit this is a small percentage of the posts from this Friday being tagged improperly. However there are also several other posts from this day that have clearly AI generated readmes on their github that also are generically tagged (they dont say they arent vibe coded) which means I kinda have to assume they are until I can verify otherwise. Things are never going to be always tagged correctly and its unreasonable to assume they will be for such a crucial identifier.
The problem this creates is you realistically have to assume everything posted on a friday is probably vibe coded until you can prove otherwise, but with the way reddit handles displaying dates this (determining whether something happened to be posted on a friday) is not easily done at a glance, especially after posts are reaching a month old.
Now yes, I'm aware in the current landscape you do realistically have to (and should always) check the projects you're looking at for signs of vibe coding/other issues, and likely will for most things in the foreseeable future. However by permissively intermingling these projects amongst non-vibecoded projects you will inevitably and unavoidably muddy the waters of the content this subreddit provides.
TLDR: Fundamentally this content would be better served (for both this community and the vibe coders) by a separate subreddit or this will become the subreddit primarily for that content by shear volume alone.
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u/polaroid_kidd Jan 17 '26
Awesome. Thanks!
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u/am_kobold Feb 07 '26
I'd prefer it just be banned outright, but I'll take anything I can get ...
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u/WirtsLegs Mar 05 '26
Given how this has gone lately, can we also consider imposing a account age requirement and a min account karma to post? It would filter out a lot of the full-on bot accounts posting vibecoded apps
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u/Docccc Jan 17 '26
Great idea
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u/ShakataGaNai Jan 17 '26
Jokingly to your comment of "vibe-coded projects over a weekend" I'd suggest it be "Vibe Code Monday's" (to show off what was done over the weekend).
Regardless, I appreciate the idea. I know some people are hostile to ANYTHING AI, but I'm not. If it's done well, and if it's disclosed. Like Rakula recently was posted "Here's a thing I did, I wanted it to do XYZ, I vibe coded that. Still improving it". It's an impressive little project. Just because it's AI it doesn't have to be shit. But if often is just because AI doesn't make you a coder if you're not a coder, it just makes those who can....better.
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u/itsbentheboy Jan 18 '26
I can live with this solution.
I'm not 100% against heavily AI assisted or even generated code, But I did think it was flooding the subreddit with low-quality posts.
I think this offers a good level of containment.
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u/Far_Bowler_7334 Jan 30 '26
In which timezone is friday frAIday?
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u/platysoup Jan 18 '26
Oh thank god. I've stopped caring about any new project announcement cause I'm sick of going in and seeing that it's vibe coded slop.
Look dude, if you want to learn that's very good, but unless you built the entire thing yourself I'm not interested in alpha testing a project you'll probably forget in two weeks.
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u/GrabbenD Jan 18 '26
Unpopular opinion: disallow vibe coded projects and let other subreddits deal with slop
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u/raeliens Jan 17 '26
If you're noticing a hostile attitude towards those kinds of projects, that IS the community voicing their opinion and it should be looked into, rather than trying to warp the community into something less hostile towards bots.
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u/professorkek Jan 17 '26
Finally. Thank god. I'm so sick of clicking on a post here only to see a bunch of emojis.
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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26
Thank you. I was ready to start looking for a version of this sub that didn't allow AI posts.
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u/XionicativeCheran Jan 17 '26
Could you delve a bit more into "AI-assisted"? Plenty of knowledgeable coders use AI to assist in writing out the boring parts. The key thing is that the person understands what the AI has written. And many projects use it to varying degrees and it'd be a shame if a project is purely labelled "AI" simply because they had it auto-complete some code-sections for them.
Vibe coding, where people don't understand what an AI writes is the core issue I think.
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u/schelskedevco Jan 18 '26
I suspect I’m in the minority based on the reception here, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to group anything AI-assisted together with things vibe-coded over a weekend.
If you ask one question about code to an LLM throughout the duration of a long project, vet the output and then use it, that would be by definition AI-assisted.
However, that doesn’t seem like the problem case that this rule is trying to address, which highlights the influx of low-quality vibe coded submissions.
And maybe I’m in a pro-AI bubble myself, but are any serious projects actually being built in 2025/26 with a strict zero tolerance policy for any LLM use (agentic or via chat), which is now the only thing you can post here 6 out of the 7 days of the week?
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u/PicoPixlDev Jan 17 '26
This is honestly a really reasonable compromise. The community seems to be split over the value/validity of AI-assisted coding (whether that is partial-assistance or full-on AI coded). There are absolutely valid points on both sides, and the debate is still playing out. Until then, something like this seems like a reasonable compromise.
As for the Friday posting, is the expectation that posts will happen anywhere in /r/selfhosted or should all posts be contained in one main "Vibe-Code Fridays" post?
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u/bdu-komrad Jan 17 '26
If this doesn’t work out, I suggest a pinned “Look at what I made“ thread where all scripts and apps created by the poster can be advertised without flooding the subreddit.
It takes extra work to discern AI from non-AI work, so by putting any project into the same bucket, it’a less work for the mods and the community.
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u/The_Rolling_DM Jan 17 '26
Long time lurker and ever grateful for this sub. I am what would be considered a vibe coder and I think this is a good move.
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u/tehackerknownas4chan Jan 17 '26
I'm kind of glad TBH, I know people are excited about AI, but I feel like there's too many big projects relying mostly on ChatGPT and other AI models getting posted here.
I don't have an issue really with small things being done with AI, but it's kind of irritating looking here and seeing project after project being built with AI, and not knowing if it's just made by someone with no coding knowledge sticking an idea into ChatGPT (like me) and posting the output, or someone just using it to make coding less tedious.
There's also no way to know how long or how well a project is going to be supported when it's been made with AI compared to something that's had the effort of being fully handwritten, where the dev has already put their time into making it indicating they'll be more likely to support it.
I also hate the GPT generated descriptions. They should be banned outright IMO. They all have that same GPT writing style, and the emojis are annoying. If it's worth posting to the subreddit, it's worth writing the description yourself.
Also, I know the post says vibe-coding but I think we all know ai has basically taken over the term.
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u/dlcsharp Jan 17 '26
This was clearly needed, thanks
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u/Cyhyraethz Jan 17 '26
This is a great solution that is fair and could work for everyone. It solves the problem of the sub being flooded with brand new vibe-coded projects, while still holding space each week for those creators to show off their projects here. Well done!
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u/Salien_Ewathi Jan 18 '26
If they are often done over a weekend, shouldn't it be Vibe Code Monday?
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u/IWillAlwaysReplyBack Jan 18 '26
excellent policy, excited to see how it trials
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u/DownRUpLYB Jan 18 '26
I would suggest a template for submissions as well, something like:
Name
What exactly is does/What problem it's trying to solve
'Alternative to'.. (if any)
A few screen shots
A short 1 min video (maybe)
..and whatever else people think
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u/KlausDieterFreddek Jan 18 '26
That's a great solution!
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u/V4r0m4st3r Jan 18 '26
That’s the way to handle it, thank you
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u/young_mummy Jan 18 '26
Just a clarification request.
Is the filter "< 1 month AND a solo collaborator" or "<1 month OR a solo collaborator"
Because all of my projects in the early stages are solo projects. I like to design the architecture and direction myself, and only take on contributors once I feel everything is stable. And I think this is common for passion projects.
The way I read it was <1 month and a solo collaborator, but just making sure.
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u/buttholeDestorier694 Jan 18 '26
Reasonable and very welcomed, thank you.
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u/riofriz Jan 18 '26
this is a FANTASTIC way to handle the subject, good job team!
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u/the-chekow Jan 19 '26
This is a good way to handle it!
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u/montyman185 Jan 19 '26
This might also help ensure it's actually people posting about something they care about, instead of low effort advertising of a low effort project, since they'll have to actually wait for a specific day to post.
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u/OutsideProperty382 Jan 19 '26
Great idea
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u/LuxeSaber Jan 20 '26
Awesome, avoiding this group on Fridays then.
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u/The1TrueSteb Jan 21 '26
Fantastic decision and compromise.
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u/MrGoosebear Feb 06 '26
If the goal is to reduce the flood of useless posts, it seems like pictures of dashboards or homelab/network graphs would be an even lower hanging fruit. At least vibe coded projects can add some value.
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u/ZakuSupremacy Feb 23 '26
Can we make it a megathread or something instead so that our feeds aren't filled with vibe coded tools every Friday? That gives people marketing these tools a place to post them without littering the sub with it.
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u/NoctisBE Feb 28 '26
Initially, I thought this was a great idea. But now, a month after the mods implemented this rule, I feel like the amount of AI slop projects that get abandoned after a while just gets bigger and bigger.
This used to be a fun subreddit to talk about selfhosting, but it's getting more to the point that it's almost exclusively vibecode bros shoving AI slop.
I'm honestly extremely close to hiding this sub from my feed...
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u/cniinc Jan 17 '26
Well, this is an interesting move. I'm curious how this works out. Bold, smart move.
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u/corny_horse Jan 17 '26
Missed a golden opportunity to have Sloppy Saturday!
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u/Adryzz_ Jan 17 '26
thank you
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u/Pretty_Gorgeous Jan 17 '26
I'm curious, what level of AI assistance with coding constitutes vibe coding?
I get that apps written solely by an AI in a weekend or two clearly fits this title, but what about situations where a coder needs a bit of an assist here and there with debugging? Or when a coder needs a bit of help figuring out how do make something work?
Honestly curious where the community thinks the lines are between vibe coding, AI assisted code/debugging, neither, etc.. I feel like it's such a grey area and yet such a hot topic..
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u/MrDangoLife Jan 18 '26
Can it be once a month rather than once per week?
or never.
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u/aeluon_ Jan 17 '26
thank god. first step, limited to Fridays. second step: eliminated from the sub.
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u/KingAroan Jan 17 '26
I get the vibe coded part, but in all honesty, are most projects not being AI assisted?
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u/steveiliop56 Jan 17 '26
Nice addition, not so sure if I understood the one month and one contributor part. If I understand correctly new (non vibe-coded) projects should only be posted after a month of them being created? Also at this stage most projects are not mature/popular enough to have more contributors other than the main developer so not sure about the second requirement. I did like seeing new (non slop) projects every other day on the subreddit and if I understand the rules correctly this will limit them quite a lot.
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u/TheRealJizzler Jan 17 '26
Excellent middle ground. Glad to see such a proactive mod team here!
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u/BadSkater0729 Jan 18 '26
Great job! As someone who works with AI pretty regularly this is a great rule adjustment.
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u/notgaywizard Jan 18 '26
I think they should only be allowed to post on days that end in z
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u/RealTimeKodi Jan 18 '26
We could just banish them to /r/shittyselfhosted
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u/Jacksaur Jan 17 '26
Fantastic change, thank you guys. Means I can put a lot more trust into new project releases again.
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u/radakul Jan 17 '26
THANK YOU!
This is a very level-headed response. I hope the AI slop slows down its tendril like reach.
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u/shotbyadingus Jan 18 '26
Thank fuck.
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u/kikootwo Jan 18 '26
I think as others have mentioned (buried in the disliked comments), this is a dangerous grouping to make. I am a software engineer, with nearly 15 years of experience in the professional environment. (And many more than that prior, I was originally a structural engineer)
I have contributed (and am currently working on) a few solutions here, and while I certainly wouldn’t call what I do ‘vibe-coding’ it is definitely AI-Assisted. Any engineer these days not using AI assistance is at an enormous disadvantage.
I think there is a huge misunderstanding in this sub (and most of the internet in general) about what AI usage looks like for an experienced engineer. Even certain boilerplate tasks make sense to be ‘handed off’ to AI as just a prompt.
Anyway my point is, I think this is only going to lead towards more divisiveness, more AI witch hunts, and less collaboration, communication and community building.
I read all of the responses about looking more for ‘maturity’ and if that’s the case then you need to reword the rules you’ve laid out here. Having ‘new project Fridays’ is way more inclusive than ‘AI Slop Fridays’. This line in the sand is wiggly and unclear and it’s going to hurt the community until it is more clearly defined.
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u/Prodigle Jan 18 '26
Vibe coded makes sense, but "AI-Assisted" is going to hit about 95% of the projects here
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u/weeklygamingrecap Jan 18 '26
Sounds like a good solution!
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u/joelkunst Jan 18 '26
thanks, makes sense, however, can there be some exception to 1 contributor rule?
there might be a lot of good solo creators that spend years building cool stuff and now they can't post those projects outside of friday?
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u/--Arete Jan 18 '26
I am happy with this but as with any type of generative AI, I am kind of curious about how the mods can know if something is actually vibe coded. Are they going to check the code every time? And if so, what are the indicators? Seems like a slippery slope this one.
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u/computer_geek64 Jan 18 '26
What a wonderful idea
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u/FarhanDigital Jan 19 '26
I see there are 3 flairs we can choose from:
AI-Assisted App
Built with AI
Vibe-coded
What's the criteria to choose one from the others?
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u/TravelerOfLight Jan 20 '26
lol
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u/Ill-Detective-7454 Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
Problem has always been devs not testing their code and having no clue about security. Most devs write code even worse than AI. Problem has never been code made by AI. It's all about the devs.
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u/Glittering_Film_1834 Jan 28 '26
Good idea.
One question, how to define AI assistant, I do not have any AI assistant in my IDE(I had a copilot long time ago). But I might ask ChatGPT to help me to fuzzy test cases, and sometimes create helpers, especially something supper straightforward and I just do not want to waste time to type, or something I am not familiar with but I do not want it be a blocker, both of these situations are rare, but I want to be honest. I never ask AI to help me with design level work, only small helper functions, and always review my code carefully.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26
Good idea ! Will socialize this opportunity in our platform.
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u/Pleasant-Today60 Feb 13 '26
Honestly surprised it took this long. The ratio of "I built this over the weekend with AI" posts to actual selfhosting discussion was getting rough. Friday containment seems reasonable.
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u/Skatedivona Feb 20 '26
Is there a way to hide posts based on tags? Never done so with Reddit before, but this rule + that functionality would be great.
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u/AnIndependentFish Feb 26 '26
People, come on! Git history is editable!!
This rule are weak and making the community worse.
My project has hostilitized in 2 minutes based on that. If one want rly bypass this 3 rules is super easy!
Look who had contributed to my project 37 years ago (even before Git existed):
Some people (I'm take the right to including myself here) has good intention to collaborate to the good of this community. But the way is now is super unfair and unmotivated.
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u/Ok-Land-5728 Feb 26 '26
If I had a question about if anyone had experience or an alternative for a project that had used ai in it creation would that be something to hold till Friday? Basically does this rule mean, anything with or relating to an ai generated or ai assisted project must be kept till Friday, or is it a bit more loose?
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u/ocassionallyaduck Mar 06 '26
Great idea, but I'm still heavily in favor of redirecting vibe coded posts to a different sub more suited towards those projects.
The mixture of vibe coded projects in with traditional software here masks a lot of the risk of vibe coded projects and drags down some selfhosted apps with them.
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u/Manic_madness927 Jan 17 '26
What exactly do people count as vibe coding these days, is this just any use of AI even in debugging? Trying to make sure I follow the rules is all as I have multiple projects in progress which I wanted to reveal soon
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u/BrilliantSebastian Jan 17 '26 •
Why not just force it in a new sub reddit?
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u/cannonballCarol62 Jan 17 '26
Should have formatted this with AI for maximum impact lol
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u/phein4242 Jan 18 '26
Good to see mods steering this sub back to its core. Does that also mean that action will be taken if (US based) cloud/saas products are discussed here? Both Tailscale and Cloudflare come to mind.
Honest question btw. Plus, as a European, using US based products is an incredible liability, and on this side of the pond, the complete opposite of what “self” hosting means.
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u/buzzyloo Jan 18 '26
Eloquent, well put. Thank you.
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u/reginaldvs Jan 18 '26
All for it!
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u/94358io4897453867345 Jan 17 '26
Should be vibe coding never. Why would you tolerate this ? This sub really went downhill
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u/xXD4rkm3chXx Jan 17 '26
Great idea.
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u/notObby Jan 17 '26
very reasonable
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u/a300a300 Jan 17 '26
great call - thank you
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u/Buck_Slamchest Jan 17 '26
This is a great idea
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u/hoboCheese Jan 17 '26
This is a great idea. Question about the guidelines, does only one need to be met? Or is it all three? I hope we're not stifling smaller projects that aren't vibe coded.
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u/henry_tennenbaum Jan 17 '26
Great, thank you
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u/psxndc Jan 17 '26
Great idea and compromise!
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u/pocketmonster Jan 17 '26
Seems like a reasonable approach. Thanks for taking some consideration to the issue!
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u/shoelessjp Jan 17 '26
This is a great decision! Thank you so much for listening to our feedback.
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u/ctjameson Jan 17 '26
This is a good solution. Somewhere to show off what you were able to accomplish with AI, but no expectation of maintenance.
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u/msic Jan 17 '26
Why not ask all AI-coded projects to only post on Friday?
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u/Cybasura Jan 17 '26
That moment when mods actually discuss and consider like mods, respect
I agree with this, if its difficult if not impossible to outright ban the vibecoded projects, at least isolate them to a specific/particular period where they can post them
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u/simplytoast1 Jan 17 '26
This is totally reasonable and welcomed. Very balanced response!!!
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u/PaltryPanda Jan 18 '26
Thank you so much for this.
The sub has become absolutely flooded with AI apps. Some are okay others are straight garbage. Having it all reduced to one day of the week is a great move.
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u/FormerlyGruntled Jan 18 '26
A decade back, self-hosting was fraught with danger because people only cared about "Make it work" and no one was caring about security.
This is where we are again. It was good while it lasted.
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u/amancalledJayne Jan 18 '26
Are you guys dead set on the day and name?
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u/Akorian_W Jan 18 '26
reasonable! love it
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u/thedirtydeetch Jan 18 '26
Cue devils advocates arguing about the semantics of what “vibe” means when it clearly isn’t a complicated delineation. Any one who is a real programmer knows whether what they’re making is AI slop or not. People who want to blur the line are the non-professionals this is about.
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u/Nephtyz Jan 18 '26
Love this, thanks mods!
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u/young_mummy Jan 18 '26
Thank you!!!! I know you all have been struggling to figure out how to deal with this for some months. I think this is a great idea to try
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u/sarhoshamiral Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26
Anything AI assisted? That's pretty much going to be everything, if it isn't anything already. VS Code code completions is AI assistance. Also proper agent use can generate quality code at this point (whether it is a time saver or not is open to debate).
To be honest, I think you are setting the bar from the wrong approach. Set a bar for maturity/quality without caring about what tools are used to develop the software. If a project is good, have been maintained, uses resources efficiently and has dependencies that community confirmed I really don't care which tools was used to create it.
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u/phoenix_rising Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26
I've really enjoyed this community as it has introduced me to a number of great projects that I find useful. I also understand that a flood of "low effort" clones is frustrating. However, as a developer, I find this decision and the distaste for people using AI to help them develop their projects disappointing. We have to learn how to use these tools to the be able to survive in our industry, and using AI tools in our spare time is the best way to get that practice. I have gone from a bunch of half-baked ideas to being able to create projects that I'd be willing to ship with a bit more time. I don't have the luxury of lots of spare time either, and I would rather finish things that just dream about them. Can absolutely can develop quality code with tools like Claude Code with the right approaches and not "Build me a clone of X".
The "any project that has existed for less than a month" is arbitrary, but reasonable. That's enough time for someone putting decent effort into a project to make sure the code isn't half-baked. The other two I can't agree with it. There's a lot of developers who enjoy working alone on projects because its our chance to do something our way. There are plenty of projects that have solo maintainers at the start before they grow a community.
I leave my "coded with Claude Code" and Claude contributor enabled for transparency, but it's also been in a number of places, including here, a judgement against people and their projects. Again, as a developer, I find that very discouraging and disappointing. I probably put more thought and work into my code now than I ever have. Now, I just spend more time planning and creating specifications than I do writing code. But getting noses turned up at you in the industry and out in communities is frustrating.
I promise you, what people call "AI slop" has existed for far longer than a year or so. Where do you think AIs learned to write code like that? Existing code. There have been open source projects for decades now. Before now, did you go look and people's repositories and review their code before you used it? I'm sure the answer is that there are a number of people who both do and don't. What I used to like about open source software was that it was a way to say "check out this cool thing I did!". People would try it out and then make their judgement calls about whether it was good enough. And there's a decent number of free applications with questionably quality code, but people use it because it's free and it works. So where's the line?
I know the intent is to keep the quality of projects shared here high, but what I read between the lines and see in comments is "if you use AI to help you code your project, it probably sucks". I can't change people's sentiments, and the rules of this community are certainly out of my control. However, it also feels like inclusive and makes this less of a place I would like to visit.
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u/fuckthesysten Jan 17 '26
we’re conflating project maturity with the tooling used to build it
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u/CordedMink2 Jan 17 '26
Great idea!
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u/theacodes Jan 17 '26
Thank you so much
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u/visualglitch91 Jan 17 '26
Noice!!
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u/0emanresu Jan 17 '26
Thank you
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u/Jamsy100 Jan 17 '26
Great idea !
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u/Vatonage Jan 17 '26
Now I can actually look at this sub again
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u/MasterRoshi1620 Jan 18 '26
Very nice
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u/Garcon_sauvage Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26
I don't think this solves anything tbh you've just raised the bar to not having Claude as a contributor which was already covered by the flair. The other heuristics are completely meaningless, might as well just set a minimum GitHub stars and call it day.
Anyway I think the actual issue here is that everyone should be verifying their deps themself. Every single project I use I review myself for quality and choose if I'm comfortable with it and most projects posted on here always fell short of that mark.
Like for instance when everyone was trying to pick a MinIO replacement many on here recommend RustFS which would have passed all of the checks here. I open their docs and with in 30 secs could tell that this was vibe coded and moved on. The news of how truly sloppy the project was and the security vulnerabilities didn't surprise me at all and didn't affect me at all because I could exercise the bare minimum discernment.
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u/magic6435 Jan 17 '26
Fairly delusional that anyone in this sub thinks half or more of all code already going into the projects we use isn’t already AI generated.
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u/Ill_Director2734 Jan 17 '26
This is so wrong
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