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I don’t think you’re overexaggerating the potential backlash at all; especially on Lemmy. When I read that blurb at the top I was thinking “Bold move, Cotton…”.

I’ve vibecoded a number of apps that I haven’t released for about the same reasons you describe. What I have put out have been little helpers with miniscule surface area. But the bigger ones I’ve built and am improving have been tailored to my needs (or for our group) and help immensely. At one time I could have coded them myself (maybe), but I never would have gotten around to it.

What pisses me off the most is when people come down on a FOSS maintainer that uses it to keep up with bugs and security fixes because nobody can be arsed to spend any time helping them, instead they’d rather sit on the internet and criticize other people’s methods of coping with overload.

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EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I have done the same. I have shared my apps though - just not here. I went to the communities they are targeting. Of course I made clear that the apps were vibe coded and lo and behold everyone was fine with it. It’s just this community that is especially toxic about this topic.

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I don’t think you’re overexaggerating the potential backlash at all; especially on Lemmy.

I don’t either, like you said, ‘especially on Lemmy.’ The thing is, AI assisted anything is unavoidable. Even in the case of longstanding, well established projects, we’re seeing AI being involved to some extent or the other. Like you, I’ve used AI to create a small handful of things for my server. One would be when I log in via SSH, there is a banner that pulls a random song from Navidrome’s playlists and displays it on the MOTD. For instance, today’s is:

🎵 SONG OF THE DAY

Blues Garage by Marco Tansini

I did make my code available here with the stipulation that it works on my machine, buyer beware, as it were. But I’d never purport to maintain it even tho I released it. For one, I don’t have the patience to wade through mounds of criticism, and requests for other options. That patience left me decades ago.

instead they’d rather sit on the internet and criticize other people’s methods of coping with overload.

Preach it! Dev toils away at creating an app. Dev releases it to the public for free with no obligations whatsoever, to even consider it. Dev gets hammered for a variety of things including AI. Go make your own app and release it to the public and see how that goes. It’s a mote/beam kind of thing.

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