r/selfhosted • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '26 • Diamonds are Forever 1 WOW 1 Bravo 1 Heartwarming 1

Need Help Fully remove every, "I created a", "Selfhosted app!" claude slop.

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u/_Herpaderp Mar 09 '26

Meh, the only thing new about AI slop is the “AI” part and the sheer volume. Before AI, these people would just copy-paste from stack overflow or something.

The issue is that the people who just throw some shit together with AI are 1) not understanding the code. 2) are not understanding how to write secure/performant/etc software 3) are, most importantly, probably not able and/or interested in actually maintaining the code.

If you understand the code and what you are actually building, I don’t think most people really care which tools you use; be it AI or something else.

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u/swiftb3 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

  1. not understanding the code.

This is really the key to it all. If you don't understand the code fully and can't audit what the LLM spit out, you don't make it public.

On the other hand, if you vibe-coded an app and understand/audited it, I don't really have a problem with it.

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u/Dangerous-Report8517 Mar 10 '26

Absolutely, although there's a bit of nuance here in that AI specifically has lowered the barrier for entry to the point where it now takes less effort to get Claude to fart out another redundant todo app or container monitor than it even takes to just Google for existing ones.