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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ElevenNotes on 2025-07-15 09:56:23+00:00.
PROBLEM
Fellow selfhosters and moderators. It has come to my attention and to the attention of many others, that more and more projects are posted on this sub, which are either completely vibe coded or were developed under the heavy use of LLMs/AI. Since most selfhosters are not developers themselves. It’s hard for the users of this sub to spot and understand the implications of the use of LLMs/AI to create software projects for the open-source community. Reddit has some features to highlight a post’s intention or origin. Simple post flairs can mark a post as LLM/AI Code project. These flairs do currently not exist (create a new post and check the list of available flairs). Nor are flairs enforced by the sub’s settings. This is a problem in my opinion and maybe the opinion of many others.
SOLUTION
Make post flairs mandatory, setup auto mod to spot posts containing certain key words like vibe coding1, LLMs, AI and so on and add them to the mod queue so they can be marked with the appropriate flair. Give people the option to report wrong flairs (add a rule to mark posts with correct flair so it can be used for reporting). Inform the community about the existence of flairs and their meaning. Use colours to mark certain flairs as potential dangerous (like LLMs/AI vibe coding, piracy, not true open-source license used, etc) in red or yellow.
What do you all think? Please share your ideas and inputs about this problem, thanks.
PS: As a developer myself and running llama4:128x17b at home to help with all sorts of things LLM, I am not against the use of AI, just mark it a such.
Mod tagging: /u/goguppy /u/kmisterk /u/astuffedtiger /u/adamshand /u/NikStalwart /u/alpay-on