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Re: Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut

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Post by websap »

voakbasda wrote: post #4
sscaryterry wrote: post #2

We are seeing the slow death of social coding. This policy is not inclusive in any way, and paints everyone and everything with the same brush.

Social coding has been dying for a while. I see it as a direct consequence of broadly decreasing levels of trust across society.

I've always found it difficult to break into medium and large sized opensource projects, because it takes so long. In one of my jobs, I worked with someone who knew the maintainer in one of the areas, and I realized that social coding is basically an uphill battle, unless you have a real life social connection.

Re: Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut

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Post by acedTrex »

websap wrote: post #7

Yikes! I've been a software engineer for over a decade, and I've never had more fun in my career. Running an AI assistant on a cloud machine to pair with me, explore my ideas, learn new tricks, and even write code that I would never write due to timelines and deadlines has been fantastic. Using coding agents to search for patterns, understanding why our abstractions might not be working because of how users integrate…

I mean it's good you are having fun, but that way of working will not be accepted in some communities, its inevitable so just find the place that accepts your preferred way of working.

Re: Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut

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Post by cautiouscat »

As more of these smaller forges get similar policies it makes me curious about the statistics behind vibecoded projects.

My anecdata tells me that most of these vibecoded projects are one offs or abandoned. That’s not to say they don’t have value to the people who put them together. What I’m wondering though is: “Do these have enough value to the community to justify the cost of more infrastructure?”

My guess is the answer is no. Then in which case, if you need a place for your pet projects, Forgejo or Gitea should work nicely for you.

Re: Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut

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Post by chinathrow »

cautiouscat wrote: post #10
websap wrote: post #7

Yikes! I've been a software engineer for over a decade, and I've never had more fun in my career. Running an AI assistant on a cloud machine to pair with me, explore my ideas, learn new tricks, and even write code that I would never write due to timelines and deadlines has been fantastic. Using coding agents to search for patterns, understanding why our abstractions might not be working because of how users integrate…

I don’t think their concern is “vibecode = bad” but more like they can’t handle the volume.

> I don’t think their concern is “vibecode = bad” but more like they can’t handle the volume.

Then they should not be in the business of hosting repos?

Re: Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut

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Post by hiAndrewQuinn »

arjie wrote: post #15

Interstitial does not work on chrome or brave on iOS. Flagging for unreadable. If it’s because it’s a source code storage service, that’s just not an interesting function. Run your own on a cheap vps with backups to R2.

Same here, thought it was Mullvad at first causing issues but I guess it's more common than that

Re: Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut

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Post by gortok »

Vibe-coded projects, where the intent is to replace editing source code as the means of change with editing prompts as the means of change, is one of those situations where the intent of how the project incurs change conflicts with how socially-coded open-source projects have traditionally incurred change.

From that perspective, it makes sense to limit "vibe-coded" projects, since they don't fit in that traditional paradigm.

Now, there are big feelings around vibe-coding and a strong aversion to change, so I can imagine this is a rather jarring experience for folks that want to vibe-code and want to have the dopamine hit of sharing that with other folks in a forum that obstensibly is meant for folks to edit code together.

Re: Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut

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Post by seabre »

websap wrote: post #7

Yikes! I've been a software engineer for over a decade, and I've never had more fun in my career. Running an AI assistant on a cloud machine to pair with me, explore my ideas, learn new tricks, and even write code that I would never write due to timelines and deadlines has been fantastic. Using coding agents to search for patterns, understanding why our abstractions might not be working because of how users integrate…

To echo another reply in the thread, but with an example: have you seen the stats for OpenClaw on GitHub just for this week?: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulse

They are trying to avoid that.

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