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This is why you should not install any of the vibe coded apps that get advertised in here regularly. You're just creating a liability for yourself.

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[–] crater2150@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are there any obvious signs of it being vibe coded that I'm missing?

In my experience, projects not being very active, especially small ones by a single person, isn't anything new that has much to do with LLMs, it was always that way for hobby projects. And it was inactive for only about a month now, with the author replying within one day before that. I have a few hobby projects myself and don't reserve time every month to work on them or check on their repos.

[–] irate944@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago

If you have access to their git, watch out for the commit history. Check how much code each commit is introducing and/or editing and how fast they are, and how many times these big commits happen.

If you see a project with big commits in very short interval of times, it’s a sign that it was vibe coded

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No obvious signs, nope. It wasn't until I started using it in earnest that I got suspicious and then when trying to work on the code it became very clear.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 6 points 20 hours ago

This in my experience is the hallmark of a vibe coded project. Individual pieces of code can be perfectly fine, but when you zoom out into an overall structure things get weird. Design patterns changing, same/similar problems solved in different, sometimes conflicting ways.

Been working on a project like that at work. Initially I enjoyed the change of pace, but as I realised that there's no coherence at all in the project structure my joy turned into frustration.

To me, the most frustrating thing is that you can't ask someone why something is done in a particular way, because no decision was ever made because no one was there to make a decision. Things just happened.