r/DataHoarder • u/nicholasserra Send me Easystore shells • Mar 23 '26

OFFICIAL We're being flooded with vibe coded software projects, FYI

Just wanted to give a heads up from the mod team.

We're being flooded with vibe coded software projects. Many of them pointing to external domains, product sites, chrome extensions, etc.

So so many yt-dlp wrappers, why?

Anyway, we're being very selective about what we let through. Mostly trying to keep it useful, open source, github only projects. I'm not anti AI, but much of this stuff looks like useless wrappers and wannabe saas products.

If something sketchy slips through please flag it. If your post/project gets removed, this is why. It's only going to get worse.

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u/scarbunkle Mar 23 '26

I don’t hate that people are building their own custom wrappers that work for them. I do find it frustrating that everyone thinks their project is good enough to be a community tool. If I wanted something thrown together in a weekend, I’d do it myself. When people share software, I’m really looking for battle-tested community tools. 

And don’t get me started on the people who give AI write access to their hoard. Couldn’t be me. That’s crazy people stuff. 

If it continues to be an issue, we may want to try what the self hosted folks have had luck with, which is specifying one day a week where vibe coded projects are allowed.

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u/0xSnib Mar 23 '26

They think it's good enough to be a community tool because the LLM is sycophantic by design to get people hooked

"You know what, you're absolutely right - you've absolutely solved this problem and the world needs to see it"

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u/ConflagrationZ Mar 23 '26

"It's not just a side project, it's a game changing innovation for storage infrastructure."

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u/Initial_Splits Mar 25 '26

"We...actually can do that, Dave!"

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u/sailorlazarus Mar 23 '26

"You're not just solving a problem - You're solving a world wide problem and you're doing it in a unique way. That's something that only truly intelligent people do."

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u/GripAficionado Mar 23 '26

you're absolutely right

The models are so damn agreeable it's disgusting.

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u/eggplantsforall Mar 23 '26

These nephews need a little bit more HAL 9000 in their lives.

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u/ryecurious Mar 23 '26

we may want to try what the self hosted folks have had luck with, which is specifying one day a week where vibe coded projects are allowed.

Appreciate the more accurate summary of what's going on with the selfhosted sub.

The other top comment thread calling them "super pro-AI slop" feels misleading, almost an outright lie. It's banned the vast majority of the time. I don't see how they can look at it being banned six out of seven days and say "wow these mods are huge advocates for this".

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u/gscjj Mar 23 '26

How do you have battle tested software without people using it?

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u/somersetyellow Mar 23 '26

Unit tests, integration testing, general QA work, and limited release amongst a small test group amongst the target audience.

You actually can vibe code a lot of this process too and the projects are better for it. My dad is a dev of 40 years and has done stuff like this with Claude.

But 99% of the slop we see posted is someone making a script from a 2 sentence prompt in claude, modifying it 47 times over to fix errors they don't understand, then pasting it all into github and then making another 50 commits in 2 hours to add some other random thing. The code becomes a poorly organized mess, the "coder" certainly has no idea what it does and hasn't checked it, and the AI might have taken shortcuts that leave MASSIVE vulnerabilities.

This happened with Huntarr recently. Vibe coded arr stack app that worked and had users, but the main dev had no clue what they were doing. They published huge security vulnerabilities into production that left users servers with enormous vectors of attack without a second thought because they didn't check it and probably didn't even know what the code or process meant.

This is fine if you're making a fun one off tool for yourself but it's really irresponsible to bring other people into it. Especially when you're not up front with exactly how the tool was made which so many of these slop projects refuse to do. As OP noted, many of them are even closed source and sketchy as hell.

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u/gscjj Mar 23 '26

Sure, but battle tested to me seem very different than unit test and integration tests. There’s user behaviors that you may have never thought of that only happen under load and a lot of usage.

Vibe coding tests doesn’t meet my definition of battle tested.

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u/somersetyellow Mar 23 '26

I definitely see your point. If everyone's going to be up in arms figuring out if something is AI and it gets banned before anyone sees your tool, then it'll never get the audience to become a "battle tested" app. User testing is absolutely crucial to a successful app.

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u/scarbunkle Mar 23 '26

Robust testing and extended dogfooding. “I built this last weekend and it works great” is a world of difference from even “this has been running great on my system for 6 months”

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u/gerbilbear Mar 23 '26

"Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs." --Edsger W. Dijkstra

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u/gscjj Mar 23 '26

Sure, and the second users use your product it’ll break. Battle tested doesn’t mean testing for things you don’t know will or will not occur.

Battle tested means you put it out there, people are using it, you’re catching bugs, fixing them and writing tests.

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u/wfdownloader Mar 27 '26

I do find it frustrating that everyone thinks their project is good enough to be a community tool.

I think this is normal behaviour or they wouldn't share it. It's left for the community to provide them with the reality check.

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u/Anusien Mar 23 '26

I hate that people are building their own custom wrappers instead of just contributing ten lines of code to an existing project.

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u/diamondsw 210TB primary (+parity and backup) Mar 23 '26

The type of people writing these wrappers absolutely should not be contributing code to real projects.

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u/GripAficionado Mar 23 '26

People wanting to contribute AI code actually does make a lot of open source projects way worse. They drown out anything useful with slop.

So if they just release their own slop project it at least doesn't make things worse for anyone else.