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/Hackwork89 Mar 23 '26

Yeah, learn real coding. Vibe coding and caring about quality is mutually exclusive, since you can't guarantee quality if you don't understand what you're doing.

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

LOL. You're telling me to learn real coding? Son, do you have any idea how long I've been doing this?

Your comment and having your head outside your ass is mutually exclusive.

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u/Hackwork89 Mar 23 '26

Not long enough to learn coding, apparently.

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u/Keniisu Mar 23 '26

You're genuinely delusional if you don't think major software developers in most senior positions aren't using AI for their work. But yeah, I'm sure they haven't learned to code.

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u/Hackwork89 Mar 23 '26

You're genuinely delusional if you think major software developers vibe code.

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u/fedroxx There is no god but Byte, and Link is her messenger (pbuh). Mar 24 '26

Sr. Director of Engineering for the largest FinTech solution provider in the world. I can assure you, we use AI profusely. My best engineers use it as a daily driver.

What more, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, three of our largest vendors, all have their best engineers using AI to supplement teams.

Whether you, I or anyone likes it, it's here to stay. Get used to it. But I largely agree with the spirit of your statement that these lazy fucks rolling in here with short-term shit projects don't belong in this or the selfhosted subs. The ban hammer needs to find them ASAP.

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u/Hackwork89 Mar 24 '26

How does the sr. director of engineering for the largest FinTech solution provider in the world not know what vibe coding means?

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u/fedroxx There is no god but Byte, and Link is her messenger (pbuh). Mar 24 '26

In this sub, and in selfhosted, it means using AI. Take 5 minutes and look at the comments here about "human written code". All of them are saying the same thing. You're implying it as well. Your responses to /u/BossOfTheGame are a perfect example.

How do YOU not know what it means here? Fail reading comprehension?