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.
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.
I made the mistake of installing Starling recently, not realizing how it was made. I contributed a PR to it, wrote a few issues describing some showstopping bugs, and since then there’s been absolutely no activity from the creator.
That’s fine, they are under no obligation to work for free. But I wouldn’t have installed it if I knew it was abandonware.
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.
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
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.
Seems like your PR was merged by the creator? If you are mad that the creator isn’t doing anything with THEIR OWN project, fork it and fix it yourself… No need to get pissy and make a full complaint post in here about it.
It doesn’t sound like OP is mad at the creator, but annoyed at the increased number of projects that are abandoned
It’s hard to judge the longevity of a project, and LLMs can make a project look more stable and professional than it is. It’s fair to feel annoyed if you mess up that call and move your workflow to something that gets abandoned.
No one got “mad” or “pissy” or filed a complaint. I feel they they were very explicit that it was not a complaint.
Disagreed. You should blast and air everyone’s embarassing trash as loud as possible so no one misses it.