**#A quick edit to address something important and provide a disclaimer: **
Thank you all for your feedback! This project was “vibecoded” with Cloude AI and serves more as a “proof of concept” for what could be achieved with AI assistance. I’m just a tech enthusiast, and I’m excited to continue exploring new possibilities. I understand there’s a real concern about “AI Slop,” but that’s exactly why I’m sharing this project with you all so that experts who are interested in the idea can offer guidance or even help improve it.
I’ve noticed that many people with home labs prefer to update their applications manually instead of relying on other apps that automate the process. Often, they have to check each one individually. That’s where Vigil comes in. The primary function of Vigil is to centralize the information and give users clear visibility of which applications are outdated, their current version, and the newer version available from several sources. This way, you can decide what and when to update.
To be honest, I hope it ends up being useful to others as it is for me.
If you have a few minutes, I’d really appreciate you trying it out and leaving a review or suggestions on the repo or even here. I’d do my best to answer most of the comments.
Slop alert. Use at your own risk
Yeah, I was looking for that info, because I don’t trust any (especially new projects, that use AI).
How did you know, it was AI though? I am just curious
The OP says so in the comments, but also:
- two week old github account, project created 2 weeks ago
- initial commit is a large 1.0 release with everything committed at once
- this also happens for 2.0 where everything is commited in one commit
- the code and comment structure
Also the look of the UI I can see default Claude UI a mile away these days. Always the same colours, fonts, layouts, ect…
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters Git Popular version control system, primarily for code IP Internet Protocol VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 16 acronyms.
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there has to be a better way than giving a slop coded project access to your docker daemon (im assuming?)
'll keep an eye on it and keep asking around. I’m pretty sure there are better ways to do that.
Looks like a cool project. Starred. I’m no tech expert either, so I’ll keep an eye on how the community reacts to it, in terms of security.
Keep up the good work!Thanks brother, I appreciate it. Security is one of my main concerns too, that’s why I’ll rely on the experts around here to point out what could be improved.
How can you expect to release something secure if you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing? You’re literally just hoping to have AI and the community do all the work for you. What exactly are you here for then?
I’m here to find what people think about the project and I’ve found pretty interesting to see their reactions and yours is one of them
You misunderstand. You offload coding of the software to AI. You offload review of code to other people. You do…nothing? Why does anybody need your involvement? You don’t contribute anything.
Cool project. Building something that exactly fits a problem you have is one of the most liberating parts of programming!
I wouldn’t worry too much about the people mad about you using AI. It’s a powerful tool and I would be silly to not make use of it. I guarantee that a everyone using the internet today has had their packets flow through some piece of “vibe code”.
One of my favorite features is having the AI tool explain back what every part of the code does. I helps you build understanding of both the code itself and is an excellent place to find bugs!
Keep it up
That’s actually a good idea. I was thinking about getting the features “working” as intended. I’ll give it a try to the “explain back” method and see how it goes. Thanks
Building something that exactly fits a problem you have is one of the most liberating parts of programming!
Sure, but they literally didn’t build or program anything.
Make it support Podman next.
Their AI agent doesn’t understand that.
I’d love too if I knew how to do that. I still have lots of things to learn and do before putting my toes on these waters, but I’m glad you showed some interest even to mention an integration with other tools. Thanks for that.
My god. This timeline is so horrible.
Sorry, but you have posted only 1 sentence about the project and not even a link to the project.
Additional with the
scripts—basically “em dash” which is really popular among llm generated texts, i get a bad feeling about it.
Well, I’m no tech expert at all so I’m just trying to get things right. I might not be able to answer everything, but I’ll do my best to get you an answer.
Not being very technical and publishing a project that is essentially coding…
Whaaaat? <Insert minion meme here>That screams for AI slop.
Trust issues aside: What does it do better than the bazillion other dashboards?
Have you vibecoded this?
Absolutelly vibecoding it with Cloude. I understand a bit of python and html but I’m no dev or technical professional at all. I just wanted to see if I could build something useful without much of technical expertise.
I appreciate you being honest in your response here.
I’d recommend adding this disclaimer to the post text and repo readme for complete transparency, and so anyone who doesn’t want to use AI-generated projects can move on without creating arguments in the comments.
There are many genuine reasons to not trust code generated by LLMs, especially with anything network-connected or handling important data, so it’s important to be upfront about it.
EDIT: removing this comment because I don’t think you will use this feedback responsibly
Hi @ramielrowe thanks for the feedback, that’s actually pretty good and I’ll start using it. I understand that all this AI thing can be sloppy, and create more friction than good, but I’m really fascinated by how it can help people with little knowledge to build something that a few years ago would’ve been only possible by experts.
for a very long time it was not only possible for experts. like, I would say the last 10-15 years, maybe even more. It’s very harmful that people can now create things they don’t even know how to check what it does, and they just assume this “sentient thing” actually produced what you wanted with no major flaws. thing is, you (or anyone else vibecoding things) won’t be able to determine what is good or bad without taking the time and learning the building blocks, learning how they work and how they are supposed to be used.
also your comments look like AI generated comments, fake enthusiasm and all the rest. it does not inspire much confidence
100%, just take a quick look at the repo. I wish there was a rule in this community that requires a label for vibecoded apps.
It’s not a bad idea at all to have a label so we could set expectations right. But don’t be too harsh on me ;) Just being able to pull a functional app without much of experience is already a reasonable accomplishment is it?
accomplishment
Self made? Yes
AI made? Not really. It’s asking your friend to do it and then punlish it under your own name and no credits given.IMO: Nothing to be much proud of. You just steered a coding monkey
I don’t think so. I think I could pull together something like this using AI and enough money/tokens, and without reviewing the code produced too much in a day, a few days for polish, after thinking about it. But I have the advantage of knowing backend, frontend, tech stacks, what works, etc. But I would have little to no knowledge over the code base and what it does outside of the visual.
In the end with these LLM models, you just describe what you want and they fill in the rest. No skill required, and that’s what scares me the most for our future.
