This is why you should not install any of the vibe coded apps that get advertised in here regularly. You’re just creating a liability for yourself.
This is why you should not install any of the vibe coded apps that get advertised in here regularly. You’re just creating a liability for yourself.
I’m generally anti-ai but this is kind of exactly what vibe coding is for.
Someone has a problem right now and there is no tool to fix their problem how they want it fixed, so they throw some shit together for personal use and maybe someone else can use it if they want idgaf.
Why would they maintain that? It does what they need it to, when they need it. Usually these tools are very basic.
If you read this community in the last weeks you’d know that slopcoders don’t stop at basic projects.
I think that compresses the nuance too much. I think of vibe coding like this:
Back in the day, the C64 bedroom coder wasn’t trying to “disrupt” anything. They were making something that worked for them, modifying example code (usually…poorly) and then sharing it. That’s how the demo scene started. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago.
The pride was in the craft, not the pitch deck.
The difference between that and the “we shipped” crowd isn’t that the C64 coders don’t want recognition - it’s that they weren’t substituting the performance of shipping for the thing itself.
Or using a woodworking analogy; you want people to appreciate the dovetail joint, not the Instagram reel of you cutting it.
If you made the dovetail joint, it’s obvious. Does which tool you used particularly matter? Shouldn’t I independently assess the quality of the joint regardless?
It’s very trendy right now to be anti-ai everything, and I get that, but we’re at risk of missing the forest for the trees here.
AI is a force magnifier and it’s not going anywhere. Take the same due diligence with projects you see here you do with other areas of your life - if it sounds too good to be true etc etc.
I hate being the wowser police on this, but from where I sit both the “FuckAI” and “we just shipped… curious to hear” crowds have the same issue.
I’m in the “Fuck AI” crowd even though I currently heavily use LLMs, specifically for the reason that slopcoders, techbros and memelords destroy the planet.
I’m in the same boat as those people and that’s specifically why I hate it.
I don’t disagree necessarily, but they shouldn’t be uploading / sharing one-off projects they don’t intent to maintain.
I don’t really agree. If you have a tool to do a thing, share it in case someone else could benefit, just be open about what it is.
That is a bit of an open source philosophy difference.
Is it better that everyone has open source everything so that anyone who finds the one-off useful can benefit from it?
Or is the software actually not provided “as-is” like the license states and on releasing open source software the community deserves regular updates?
I think that second option is a very entitled path. We are not entitled to the continued used free labor of a random person on the internet.
Yes, but there’s a difference between having your source and binaries available on github and submitting to an app store like flathub.
That’s true to an extent, but I’d disagree wrt something like dockerhub.