He made billions on his meme coin but then thought it was on sale and bought it all back again.

On the flip side, if you’re vibe coding an app you should seriously consider whether it’s something you want to open source or make available publicly. There’s a social contract that comes with that.

I have 2 self hosted slop apps I build and maintain myself. I think people would genuinely get great use out of them.

…but then I’m inviting critiques and feature requests and am roped into supporting them so it’s not just a big pile of shit that wastes everyone’s time. And I don’t want to spend my limited free time making common sense improvements to improve it for others. I want to write a lazy Claude prompt with insufficient context, get it barely doing what I need, and then spend the rest of my time eating crayons and similar pastimes.

They’re ripping off our plagiarism machine!!

I use pangolin and traefik together and expose a few of my services that way. But not everything.

I slot services into categories based on:

• do I really need to be able to access this externally?
• …with full admin rights?
• what write/delete access am I granting?
• if an attacker got in, how much damage could they do with what they could access?

Then the service is either not externally open at all, secured behind pangolin SSO, or secured behind pangolin SSO AND that service’s native auth. Which is an annoying double auth, but I feel like it’s another layer of protection in case one of them gets a 0-day exploit.

The industry makes billions renting instead of selling their stuff, and they spend it all trying to stop piracy.

I want a community where people can use AI to help build a tool and be able to post about it here. But unfortunately, I’m just not seeing that. The AI-generated apps seem to be coupled to a drive-by, AI generated post (and comment replies) all full of em dashes and the standard Claude slop language.

So, yes, mandate an AI tag. Hold posters to it and remove violators, because it seems to always be the same class of “contributors” that are cosplaying as software developers.

Not sure if your rule changes are touching this, but the worst offenders I don’t want to see here are:

• posting and commenting text written entirely by AI
• not open sourcing or giving any visibility into their code
• adopting a paid model

The people doing that remind me of the people who would approach me 20 years ago saying “hey I have an idea for an app I want you to build and I’ll give you 5% of my company. It’s like Facebook for dogs, but I need you to sign an NDA before I say any more”.