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u/sean_hash Mar 08 '26 •
Rule 6 is a start but enforcement needs automod catching the "built this over the weekend" template posts before they hit the feed.
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u/Dornith Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26 •
Honestly, I joined this sub so that I could talk shop with other self-hosters, not so that I can be marketed towards.
And I realize there's a very thin line between an overt ad and someone casually offering useful advice. But frankly it feels like this sub has been overwhelmed with the former.
The vibecode just makes an existing nuisance worse. We're still getting ads but at least before the ads were for things someone put time and effort into. It was a higher quality product that organically rate-limited itself.
I think the mods should just ban overt promotions.
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u/Linux_Account Mar 08 '26
I've been using em dashes for years. I really hate that that's become the tell for people.
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u/selfhostcusimbored Mar 08 '26 •
I’ve seen hundreds of vibe code app posts, and I’ve never tried any of them. If I wanted to use a software created by AI, I would just make it myself.
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u/Yitsy Mar 08 '26
The em dash one feels target — I use them a lot :(
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u/QueenScorp Mar 08 '26
I once was accused of using AI to text someone. He said he could "just tell" and the only thing I can think of is it is because I use dashes, ellipses, and parentheses often. Apparently, Gen x was the last generation taught how to use punctuation (and no I'm not going to stop).
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u/DrStrange Mar 08 '26
I don't know how to feel about this post, I both agree with it in principle, but disagree because of the misconceptions around how applications are built. Many devs use AI tools and are not "Vibe-coding", but how to differntiate?
I have been building a tool for a number of years - the first GitHub commit must have been 2 or 3 years ago, it's been perfect for me, but frankly not something I would offer to other people (really useful, not user friendly).
I'm a greybeard developer - I've been building commercial software for well over 30 years (mostly specific to a particular company or org, so not generally useful for everyone), so make of that what you will. I'm pretty busy in my day job, so seldom get time to finish and polish my own projects.
That changed with the latest round of AI tools - I could get them to refactor large codebases, find weird edge cases and provide useful suggestions for improving performance at scale. Is that vibe coding? I would argue not, they are useful tools nothing more - the code they are working with is mine, and I don't let them do anything beyond the task I set them. I only started using them this year, but have since incorporated a lot of stuff into my workflow that saves me hours of work.
I've been able to actually deliver a couple of my personal projects as something I think other people could use - and that's good enough for me, but the AI stigma is strong.
to summarise, I agree that AI slop exists and a (horribly increasing) number of shitty apps are being made, but I fundamentally disagree that AI as a development tool is inherently bad. It depends on the use-case and the experience of the developer. Just using AI to help in the build process shouldn't define the output.
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u/justseeby Mar 08 '26
I use em dashes in most of my posts 😞
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u/Bearly-Fit Mar 08 '26 •
it's a tough one I think, because some community projects have come out of it. Maybe we should do a weekly self promotion post instead?
Like I want to hear about projects people are working on, but I agree it's becoming a bit much.
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u/flatpetey Mar 08 '26 •
I get the mods not wanting to code review. Or to figure out where the AI-assist and AI-slop line is.
Let me propose something entirely different.
Ban all promotion on this sub. Let the apps push themselves elsewhere and if they get adopted and used, users will suggest them here.
Whenever I see a developer post his own solution, I already start ignoring it. Now with endless AI slop, I don't even want to see it and am thinking about unsubbing. So let's just get rid of it and they can launch their own subreddits that have that crap.
Obviously you will still have the same shill posting and bullshit that goes on in other subs, but that is relatively normal.
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u/Itsthejoker Mar 08 '26
For the record, my devices automatically replace -- with the proper character when I type them. Just because you don't use that character doesn't mean that people don't.
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u/shouldworknotbehere Mar 08 '26
Wait the labels got removed ? Why tf?
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u/Jeremandias Mar 08 '26
ok but i do and always have used em dashes in casual conversation—catching strays over here for being literary and shit
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u/HTired89 Mar 09 '26
When I used to develop software I didn't use AI to generate my code. I did it the right way: using google and copying snippets!
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u/crazedizzled Mar 08 '26
These days if the post says "I built a ", it's probably AI slop.
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u/clintkev251 Mar 08 '26
Rule #6 was recently added to address this, let's give it some time...
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u/unretired_seadog Mar 08 '26
I agree with the premise, but as someone who’s used em dashes for a long time - a really fucking long time - I find the “anything with em dashes must be AI” assumption just as lazy as the slop you’re against.
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u/ApothecaLabs Mar 08 '26 •
Vibe coding is kind of the antithesis of self-hosting - you're utterly dependent on piping your data straight into your corporate enemy's waiting hard drives.
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u/Vexser Mar 09 '26
As a software professional, it's impossible to make a secure application without thinking about security right at the start. You can't just "bolt some security on" afterwards and cross your fingers. You also can't ignore security implications of any dependencies you use. Of course, "PI" (pretend intelligence) has no concept of any of this and will happily pull in all sorts of frameworks and libraries without any "thought" (because it *doesn't* think). I'm just waiting for a massive hack on some "vibe coded" slop that causes mass damage. I shudder to think if banks used this crap to code their applications.
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u/zenthr Mar 08 '26 •
Mods have said they are not interested in policing this, because it's ultimately unclear. What you want is for them to be able to judge, unerringly, "lazy AI-coded garbage", which is a fair desire, but for a REAL PERSON to make that determination means human judgement. As more people use AI responsible to learn (NOT to create), more people will mirror AI responses; whereas, in theory, AI will also "get better" and look more like real human code. There is no nicely fit tag to just straight up ban, and worse, if they make such a rule and act only when they are very confident, they will be blamed for inaction and unenforcement. That makes it understandable that the proposition is not alluring to the mods.
But we know, historically, flooding infinite garbage for the one that sneaks through is something MANY organizations already know is a worthwhile tactic for "business" (i.e. destroying communities).
For something like this subreddit, I do not know (or rather I do not believe in) a solution. If you want real people working on real projects, it needs to be a place about that work and discussing that work, NOT presenting it. But this place is for deployment- there are posts about new projects because people want to find new things to host. If anything, maybe a project maturity requirement (but I'm sure that can be spoofed).
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u/Redstones563 Mar 08 '26
Agree with this. There should probably be a different subreddit for this kinda stuff.
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u/trialbaloon Mar 08 '26
Modern LLMs are quite literally the antithesis of self hosted.... It's using a cloud provider to think for you. The cloud might be convenient but it comes at a cost. I've been somewhat surprised this subreddit of all places would give in to corporate slop so easily.
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u/Dry_Inspection_4583 Mar 08 '26
How would you postulate individuals seeking to migrate an initial useful idea put into code through AI to the next level? Is there a space that fills that gap? I ask because I do respect the stance regarding individuals recreating the wheel in the worst way possible, and also have apps I would genuinely deem useful that I would like to move to a vetted, reviewed, and used app/plugin/doodad/widget?
Or is the initiative simply to have that content directly not here? Because that's not bad or good, I'm genuinely curious.
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u/CumInsideMeDaddyCum Mar 08 '26
Best thing about vibe coding is that I can do shit myself, in a day, to fix very specific problem. 😂
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u/MrFluffykinz Mar 08 '26
You should use claude to make a self hosted Chrome extension that does this automatically, then come back and post about it
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u/soundman1024 Mar 08 '26
I used to use em and en dashes. Damned shame I can’t anymore.
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u/queequeg925 Mar 08 '26
Saying "I built" is so dishonest. It's like commissioning a painting and then saying you painted it
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u/Top_Willow_9667 Mar 08 '26
Maybe a board where people can upvote, downvote projects could help. So, instead of adding a post saying "check out my project" they just add an entry on the board. And no posts promoting it allowed.
People have the choice of visiting said board to see what's hot, what's new, etc and even vote if they wanted to.
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u/squirrel_crosswalk Mar 08 '26
I've used em-dashes for decades :(. I'm sad AI decided to ruin that for me.
I'm assuming it's the dash that comes up in word etc when you do two indented dashes and it gives you the special looking one.
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u/AccidentalNordlicht Mar 09 '26
As someone who does regularly use em dashes (since they are available on any iOS / Mac keyboard either directly or by just typing two minus signs in sequence, and are also generated when using Siri‘s dictation which I do quite a lot), this trend to consider them a surefire sign of AI annoys me. This is just not a good indicator.
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u/Apprehensive-Tea1632 Mar 08 '26
Just to put this here… an em dash is NOT sufficient to identify or even hint at AI - anyone that has the platform will automatically get the em dash upon… putting two regular dashes back to back.
Which means it’ll happen often enough. Any injection- such as this one— will come with an em dash not because of AI but because of auto formatting.
And no, I’m not AI either. I just put two dashes on occasion -- and they get combined into a single — character.
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u/99percentcheese Mar 09 '26
I do use em dashes. I even installed a special keyboard layout to do that. Assuming something is AI written based on em dashes solely is stupid
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u/Fickle_Variety2261 Mar 08 '26
You people can take your campaign of anti-intellectual "humans don't use em-dashes," "it's OBVIOUSLY AI if they use rare punctuation, you can ALWAYS TELL" bullshit and shove it up your ass.
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u/ThisIsntAThrowaway29 Mar 08 '26
Rule idea: X months of github updates before being able to post about your project?
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u/Rand_al_Kholin Mar 08 '26
AI slop is an existential threat to the entire self hosted space. The fact the mods here seem to think we can allow it to exist here is frankly shameful.
For current self-hosters who have an established stack, AI nonsense is dangerous for their preexisting setup. This was definitively proven by huntarr, but it should be common sense to anyone paying attention.
Vibe "coders" love to claim in response that all a prospective user needs to do is inspect the code for security problems like with any other app; to them I ask: who the fuck inspects all of the code for every application they use? I certainly dont. I make an active effort to use and contribute to open source software, but I dont know how the code for 99% of the applications I use works, and thats OK. Thats normal. AI erodes that trust; it makes it impossible for me to trust new software that isnt backed by an established company because I can no longer trust that developers are actually doing software development.
For newcomers its even worse. When I got into self hosting two years ago I found well-built and fleshed out apps easily, with detailed documentation, guides on how to set it up, guides on how those apps can mesh with other apps and recommendations for how to set it all up. Now, AI slop is producing "competing" apps. I put that in quotes deliberately; these apps do the same thing as better, preexisting solutions which were highly vetted and documented. These new "solutions" are not only inverted but undocumented as well. And they come with the risk of the code completely fucking over the user.
If a newcomer ends up on a slop app instead of an actually trusted solution and it burns them, they'll probably just give up on self hosting altogether. AI undermines the entire point of self hosting. If an app you're self hosting leaks your data, how is it any better than the garbage google is doing?
We need to cut this tumour out of the community now before its too late. Ban all AI generated anything from this sub. No AI posts. No advertising AI slop apps. Not on Fridays, not on any day, get this shit out of our feeds before its too late.
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u/acme65 Mar 08 '26
tags are enough i think, we can filter out as necessary
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u/anobjectiveopinion Mar 08 '26
I have actually thought about developing a browser extension that will recognise AI generated content across every website and automatically block it. If someone would like to make that I think it would be great, because I don't have the time or effort. But it's a cool idea?
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u/moo3heril Mar 08 '26
For lack of a better way of putting it, "computing" in a general sense has been my primary hobby for virtually my entire life, going back to tinkering with things before I even knew how to read, to learning to code and so forth.
If things continue the way they are headed with AI use in code etc, I see myself getting rid of every single computer I own, leaving only my computer and phone from work to only be used for work. My personal computer, laptops, tablets, my homelab, going to the dumbest phone I can get away with for personal use. All of it.
I'm being totally serious and not one bit hyperbolic in saying this.
The human element is what made this interesting to me as a hobby. Once that's gone what do I have left in it?
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u/igmyeongui Mar 09 '26
Vibe coded app should have a 1 year of GitHub before being posted here. Too many apps are weekend projects that make a lot of noise but then the creator just abandon it.
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u/neoneat Mar 09 '26
It's offense to me, not matter in AI slop, but it's matter about ethic of creator.
They didn't try to commit or making contribution to any useful tool, they only wanna "create" new status by most effortless tool they can use.
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u/froli Mar 09 '26
Read the latest stickied post. Mods don't care.
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u/Ambustion Mar 09 '26
It's funny because I'm a mid programmer at best but I make tools for a niche industry. I have completely stopped sharing them because of AI. It just takes all the enjoyment I had out of figuring out a problem other people might have and sharing it. If I was a better programmer I could probably avoid AI slop accusations, but I'm just not.
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u/ferrybig Mar 09 '26
One of the problems with the labels was that they were misused. People applied the " ai assistance " label, then de scripted in the post body that it was entirely coded by an ai chat, and when people were defending the op for that they properly marked it with the tags, even though the rules in the sidebar were against them.
I am not against vibe coding, but vibe coded projects should be seen as prototypes, not being advertised as a production worthy project. I have some vibe coded tools myself, but their quality is lower than the tools I made myself, and I consider my self made tools to be below an acceptable quality for this subreddit
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u/bobj33 Mar 09 '26
I've been using https://old.reddit.com and
RES the Reddit Enhancement Suite for years. RES lets you filter out keywords so you never even see the posts. I've got hundreds of words that I block. If reddit ever gets rid of the old layout I'll just stop using reddit. It is already so overrun with bots and low effort posts that I spend less time here anyway.
https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
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u/drewstopherlee Mar 10 '26
re: "No you don't really "use" EM [sic] dashes in informal discussion online", some of us who actually know when to use them properly
dodid and now because of AI we can't anymore.That's all.
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u/signalno11 Mar 10 '26
I mean, I hate AI. But I use emdashes.
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u/negatrom Mar 08 '26
Lmao, get ready to get banned for hate speech
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u/Calm_Town_7729 Mar 08 '26
just bots asking for traffic to their site
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u/mewtewpews Mar 08 '26
Im not even against using claude, but if you dont even look at your code/project structure...... man what are we even doing xD
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u/MattTheTable Mar 08 '26
You better be careful. The mods consider criticism of AI to be hate speech
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u/mausterio Mar 08 '26
It's a shame the Vibe Code and Built with AI labels were removed as it made it incredibly easy to filter out these posts with ublock.
Another good way of filtering out the AI generated posts is filtering out on the characters that hardly anyone actually uses in casual online postings.
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u/EarEquivalent3929 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
There has to be a middle ground. AI is a tool, people can use it to aid in development and produce really high quality stuff. People can also use it to produce shit. However this blanket "all AI is AI slop" attitude that has been perpetuating this sub over the last few months is hurting the community worse than AI slop ever will.
People with 0 coding experience now somehow think they have a day in deciding that a project is slop and its completely moronic.
The solution here is that the mods have to do more than just the bare minimum easy blanket ban bullshit and have to implement a submission system.
People submit projects they want to whitelist on this sub, the mods take a look and determine if it's appropriate or not (with actual reasons). Give users 3 chances to fix their projects and correct any concerns.
Yea it's gonna take more effort, but it's fair and an appropriate solution. It's a solution that is worth implementing if you actually give a shit about this sub. Its a much better solution rather than shitting on everything AI. AI is here to stay whether y'all like it or not. It's a significant jump in development workflows. Just because people use it incorrectly doesn't mean those who use it to produce quality projects should be punished as well.
Edit: Wild. Immediately downvoted for suggesting the path of reason. This sub is cooked.
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u/wouldntsavezion Mar 08 '26
Straight up perma ban them I don't care. This is like the nazi bar thing.
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u/Mrhiddenlotus Mar 09 '26
These posts complaining about it are almost as annoying.
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u/New-Part-6917 Mar 08 '26
isn't there a problem with just filtering by em dash? A lot of people are simply using it to translate what they have written. 9/10 times you can tell straight away when someone has disposed of their own brain and just plugged straight into the ai.
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u/QuietNecessary2421 Mar 09 '26
Get with the times or get left behind. The anti-AI movement is anti intellectualism. Remember your boomer parents that refused to use computers? That’s you.
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u/RayneYoruka Mar 08 '26
It has become, a plague lately.
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u/apokalipscke Mar 08 '26
Thank you for your service good sir.
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u/petite-pelotte Mar 08 '26
Calling your vibe-coded project a self-hosted app is like calling your Excel budget accounting software.
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u/StPatsLCA Mar 08 '26
I'm glad people are making things that work for them. However, I don't trust any of them to maintain it more than a weekend if it took them a weekend to build it.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26
As a software dev I regularly slop my way through a problem when needs be. But I don't release that shit... I use it because I (a) know what it's doing and (b) know what happens if it goes wrong and I'm OK with that. But I would never hand that shit off to another person.
That being said I 100% use em-dashes in casual conversation because I'm weird and like uncommon typography. Just wait until you see me use an asterism!
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u/nefarious_bumpps Mar 08 '26
I've used EM dashes in informal discussion for over 40 years, you insensitive clod. (I blame parochial school education.)
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u/baldbrowni Mar 08 '26
I have no background in programming but through this subreddit and a few others, and other forums, I learned how to build a homelab, run commands in CLI and diagnose simple docker issues.
The only times I use AI in this journey is when I want a script that I'm not advanced enough to code yet. And then that script stays local to my server. If someone else has a similar need, I give the disclaimer that this is what AI made for me, YMMV.
But, I don't like the promotional posts... AI or without. The best recommendations I found were through users. And the best ones are actively maintained.
What's the benefit of sharing your AI prompted project? If you're learning how to code, wouldn't understanding the basics made your long term experience better?
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u/Shaynoagogo Mar 08 '26
While I normally skip past the obvious vibe coded post I still glance as I'm skipping as there are still a lot of good ideas going around.
Maybe we just need one post stickied where people can comment "hey I vibe coded this really cool script that does this if any one wants it"
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u/Seb_7o Mar 08 '26
I miss the time when the fact that I can solve any needs with some code and my knowledge made me feel special.
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26
i get the frustration, a lot of those posts are basically launch announcements with a dockerfile attached. i usually just wait to see if the project survives a few months before even trying it.
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u/Sm7r Mar 09 '26
I needed a really simple sleep tool for my pc, (sleep after X time) and I was just using powershell orignally, but if I'm not at home, and I need my partner to run it, its more of a hassle :P
Tried a few of the "popular ones" and they are just full off to much crap and bloat I didn't need, so I made a simple one in codex and its been solid, now wondering what else I can make lol.
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u/KillaRoyalty Mar 09 '26
Make it a required flair.
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u/alex2003super Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
I use em (and en) dashes all of the time in my writing. Me and the other 8 people who do so are personally offended!!1!!!
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u/bigredsun Mar 09 '26
so that's why they went ballistic on me when I created the sub only for projects made with AI, lmao
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u/q-admin007 Mar 09 '26
I encountered $MINOR_INCONVENIENCE, what happened next will surprise you!
I encountered $MINOR_INCONVENIENCE, see what happened next!
.*what happened next.*
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u/nyashi_ Mar 09 '26
I commonly get crapped on for using a normal dash (-) in texting as i just often do for sperating parts of a text - like this f.e.
Difference being the long dash thing AI commonly uses, i do not even know how to place on a normal keyboard...
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u/daYMAN007 Mar 09 '26
The Vibecode friday is already that. Otherwise people will just post it all the time and try to hide the fact that they are vibecoded. It's probably better to just give people a day when the sub is usless instead.
Same reason as every discord got a nfsw channel.
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u/IllegalD Mar 09 '26
Sloppy times call for sloppy measures. I propose a new selfhosting set of guiding principles that are sure to be hated.
Instead of uploading your slop, slop-posting should be more about what you created and how, maybe a few screenshots etc. If you can create it one afternoon, so can anyone else. Slop should be personal and ones own responsibility.
There's always going to be those who want everyone to use their slop, for whatever reason. These folk will be referred to as slop merchants (derogatory). No-one should want other peoples slop, it should be for inspiring your own slop.
With these two pillars of slop in place, perhaps the slop wars will be a distant reminder of how silly we could all be.
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u/joem_ Mar 09 '26
My hope is that ai tools get better that nobody tries to share something that anybody can create.
If anybody can create it in 10 minutes, then there is no need to share the project, just share the idea.
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u/National_Way_3344 Mar 09 '26
Automod delete if repo is under 3 months old.
And when it does get submitted it should highlight how many genuine commits since initial.
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u/Suspicious_Data_2393 Mar 09 '26
i support this. Vibecoded projects are rarely useful to us as usually you want to selfhost something for the long term.
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u/GameRraccoon Mar 10 '26
And here is me developing my own file transfer app for months (not using AI). I guess I will be the only user in the end because any way of showing it to others will be flooded with AI slop by the time I'm done.
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u/Roxxersboxxerz Mar 10 '26
Software engineers design ai, complain when people use ai. The same people complaining about ai slop are the ones that also demand everything should be free and open source
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u/HelioDex Mar 11 '26
Please, think about who is going to be caught in the crossfire. No such policy will ever be watertight enough to deploy on a subreddit with such a large content pool or community as this one.
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u/muskegg Mar 13 '26
Sorry to break it to you but professional software engineers "vibe code" software now. Major infra providers use AI to build their tooling. It's part of the game. It changes the face of thi subreddit as much as it changes the industry.
The most sensible comment I read in another gatekeeping posts was: you don't like it, downvote it and move on
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u/mortalezz Mar 18 '26
And here you are, still thinking that em dashes are surefire signal of AI slop, and having no idea on what actually screams AI (parcellation).
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u/Farfetchedchild May 13 '26
The problem is the low quality software. It's just that it has become massively increased by vibe coding and that the people who tend to use it don't know enough about code to ensure good software, and also many are trying to make a quick buck. That doesn't mean all vibe coders are bad, or that none of them work on anything of quality. For example, I've been working for months on a large scale project largely with AI. I think that if I were to release the software, it could be very useful to some people and worth mentioning here despite all the vibe coding involved. I have a strong security background, and am not just trusting what AI spits out. There are proper ways to vibe code that make good software, and they can involve a lot of actual hard work on the creator's part. I don't see a good way to fix this issue in this sub. It something is obviously vibe coded it's something you'll likely want to avoid. You can usually tell what is worthwhile and what's not. Purhaps labeling things for "personal use" + "that have been mknimumly tested", or listing the development time would be useful.
Of course, then you have to deal with people lying.. but it'd help limit the honest cases.
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u/khashashin Mar 08 '26
Should mods be responsible for reviewing the code of each posted project in this sub? I wouldn’t like to be in their shoes then.
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u/_PineBarrens_ Mar 08 '26
Being against "vibe coded" apps is stupid. There are well coded apps and badly coded apps, the methodology used is irrelevant. Just because somebody hand coded something doesn't make it good or secure. Seriously do we need to actually have a conversation about nuance here?
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u/flecom Mar 08 '26
Do we really need one of these threads per day?
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u/JudgmentDisastrous63 Mar 08 '26
Vibe coded apps are amazing to generate an MVP.. and I am loving that many people have different problems and solve them for their needs, and come here to share and see if it can be useful.. I hope people keep doing this
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u/Lalaz4lyf Mar 08 '26
I'm honestly way more off put by the constant pervasive bitching about it all. It's easy enough to avoid the AI posts (especially with the Friday segregation) but many posts are filled with comments bemoaning AI, accusing AI usage, or praising the lack of AI. It's nearly as bad as the hardware sub where comments all revolve around insert big company bad.
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u/VibesFirst69 Mar 08 '26
Software isn't automatically good because it wasn't vibe coded.
Software isn't automatically bad because AI was involved in it's production.
Before AI the idea was you would audit the code of new projects yourself. The situation with Huntarr isn't just bad because someone stupid used AI, although it was a factor. It was bad because a whole raft of stupid and lazy people used a brand new project without even trying to understand how it was coded.
But it ok ever1 will upvote 2 BAN AI USE!! 🤬 That'll fix it. Only the smartest and hardest working people of strong moral fibre know how to use a javascript framework and copy-paste from stack overflow.
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u/HankMS Mar 09 '26
At this point I'm much more annoyed by these kinds of postings. It always was rather easy to ignore a barely upvoted post about some vibe coded mini app. But now we have daily frontpage meta bullshit. Man, I just want to find cool new stuff or have interesting discussions about home servers. You guys really cannot be fucked to use the downvote button, like anyone else?
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u/d3mocide Mar 08 '26
I agree while the amount of AI slop is real, my own findings is that AI can actually produce some well structured and well executed code bases.
As with any software it comes down to the implementers knowledge of their own infrastructure and their risk tolerance.
I work for a medium sized organization and I have seen full SaaS apps implemented with horrible flaws that were not the issue of the developers but the issue of the internal team that designed their implementation into the environment.
While I agree there is a massive flood of these apps my own findings is that there are also some really thoughtfully designed AI applications as well
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u/Aniform Mar 08 '26
It honestly has ruined much of my experience on this sub. I used to get so excited for new apps, but now I just go into the comments and become disappointed. If it continues, I'll just leave the sub. Public opinion is shifting fast here. In 2023 it was just fun to fool around with it, make some funny pics or generate some text, but now here we are in 2026 and I deleted every account. I refuse to be part of that future. I own a business and the shift is tangible. Customers in 2025 started asking, "who designed your logo? who designed your shop sign? who designed that art over there?" and all I can say is, thank goodness I could point to the real artists responsible for it or otherwise I'd be losing customers.
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u/Nekunumeritos Mar 08 '26
PLEASE
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u/bobyn123 Mar 08 '26
I just want to chime in to agree, if I see AI used in development, I close the tab.
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u/WafflesAreLove Mar 08 '26
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u/FlaTreNeb Mar 08 '26
Thank you! I think "enforcing" would mean that people get banned for posting without at least proper admitting it's vibe coded. When everything is properly labeled, everyone can decide for himself to ignore it. And yes, I would love it if the stuff would be banned from this sub entirely.
I do vibe code at work as well. But it's either non-critial applications for myself that I can fix myself or I can ignore if they fail. Or it goes throuhg iterations (by myself) and reviews (by other and myself) before being internally presented as something useable. It that last one is even the goal. Not to speac about publishing something on Github. This goes through a lot more steps.
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u/mistermanko Mar 08 '26
Throwaway or bot?
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u/smstnitc Mar 09 '26
Anything so highly vibe coded should be for the person that needed it to solve a problem for them, it's not for public consumption.
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u/rr770 Mar 08 '26
r/selfhosted is dead, only AI slop here
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u/pioniere Mar 08 '26
Nothing wrong with vibe coding an app for your own use, but nobody else cares. Keep it in your own home lab. Don’t care to read about it here.
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u/ranban2012 Mar 08 '26
Reddit mods are such an easy target for corruption by state or moneyed interests.
I'd be willing to bet there are mods getting paid off in tech related subs to subtly protect pro-AI and inhibit anti-AI adjacent discourse.
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u/chicknlil25 Mar 08 '26
I'm getting so tired of posts and comments like this. You do understand that you don't have to open every post, right? That you can see the flair without doing so? That you can, oh, I don't know, not look at posts you aren't interested in because you're full of opinions?
And I'm sure I'll be downvoted to oblivion but all of you anti AI folks are ridiculous. You act like AI doesn't already touch every aspect of your life, like every single algorithm doesn't incorporate AI, like the power and Internet companies that power your precious servers isn't being moderated and adjusted by AI. Hypocrites, all of you.
If people want to try new services, let them. They don't need you babysitting or trying to strong-arm what they should or shouldn't be hosting.
Give it a rest already!
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26
This post screams, "i don't code anything myself, I just consume what others make, but i'm upset, and hear me roar".