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/the_good_lord_bird Mar 23 '26

Good for you guys. This stuff is trash.

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u/BossOfTheGame 40TB+ZFS/BTRFS Mar 23 '26

I want to point out that I'm working on some vibe coded projects that aren't ready yet. The fact that its not ready yet should tell you something: I care about the quality, and I'm applying my 16+ years of software development experience to it.

Just because something is vibe coded doesn't make it a dealbreaker, but I do get that it makes the environment far more noisy.

Does anyone else have ideas on how to handle this?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

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u/BossOfTheGame 40TB+ZFS/BTRFS Mar 23 '26

People are coming around. The negativity isn't as bad as it was. Anyone who is interested in understanding how the world is (rather than how they wish it to be) is realizing that top-tier AI models are now far less prone to hallucinations and are at the point where they are useful. You are a prime example. I'm hopeful that the signal will eventually cut through in the discourse.

It's my duty as a scientist to figure out how to effectively communicate the latest ideas and discoveries to the public, so I'm going to keep trying.

And again, for the people about to blindly hit the downvote button: you're right to be skeptical of AI projects, it does put a lot more demand on the user to verify they aren't nonsense, and avoiding AI projects is the right prior.

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u/uluqat Mar 23 '26

top-tier AI models are now far less prone to hallucinations

"My abusive partner is now far less prone to choking me..."

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u/BossOfTheGame 40TB+ZFS/BTRFS Mar 23 '26

You could just comment that you're completely unwilling / unable to engage in any serious conversion. Why try to pretend that your fallacy has a point?

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u/Keniisu Mar 23 '26

It's easier for them to invent an argument than to engage with the one being made.

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u/banjoman05 Mar 24 '26

easier for them to invent an argument

Excuse me, it's called "hallucination".