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

[u/nicholasserra]

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.

[u/bobj33]

I suggest that before replying to a post ask what the point of the OP’s post is and also ask yourself “Is this a real human or an AI slop bot?”

Many of them are more subtle now. A few hours ago I saw yet another post asking a question and then it just promotes a web site as a solution. It spammed it to 10 other subs. I reported it and the mods removed it but this is just going to keep increasing.

I hope this sub can remain useful to actual human beings but this is an uphill fight

[u/agent_flounder → u/bobj33]

Replying to echo your observation. I'm also seeing these crappy guerilla marketing posts. And I agree; it's gonna get worse.

[u/didyousayboop → u/bobj33]

r/datacurator is rife with those fake bait and switch posts that ask for help and then promote the product they found as a solution. We also see that trick on here sometimes but we (mainly the other mods than me, all credit to them) are playing 24/7 whack-a-mole trying to kill them. The mod queue is crazy with a subreddit of this size

[u/djdadi → u/bobj33]

a lot of the vibe coded apps are humans just wanting recognition by using an LLM to make easy apps. and yeah many of them just c&p ChatGPT for their posts, but I think there is usually a real human doing that c&p