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**#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primary function of Vigil is to centralize the information and give users clear visibility of which applications are outdated, their current version, and the newer version available from several sources.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.

REPO: https://github.com/kumucode/vigil.git

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[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why would this be an accomplishment we need to celebrate? Something else than you wrote that code. If you want to celebrate an accomplishment you could say "I was part of an AI vibe coding project and we created something functional". What you did now was putting yourself front and center where you have no place to be, you are a supporting actor, at best. Its like a project manager telling everyone they accomplished getting a product out the door, giving people the impression they did that by themselves only. No, you were part of a team where (most probably) the real work was done by others. Same applies here: you used the coding abilities of another/something else to somehow toot your own horn and tell the world you did this. You did not. You never shared any info on the others involved on your team who did all the heavy lifting, only to reveal this info when pressed by others.

[–] 1step@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I get your point about giving proper credit to the tools involved, and that’s fair. I’m not trying to pass this off as traditional from-scratch coding. Reducing it to “you did nothing” feels a bit excessive. At the same time, there’s still effort in figuring out what to build, iterating, debugging, and getting something functional out. That’s the part I’m happy about.

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was a bit harsh. If you are happy about this project then that is good enough.

I agree with people though, I wish there was a mandatory tag to indicate using AI on a project.

[–] 1step@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No worries, reddwarf. I should've pointed out that this project was created using AI. It seems that having a tag for this type of projects can definitely avoid some misunderstandings. I hope you have a great day!

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Even this comment stinks of LLM style. Please stop trying to bring about the dead internet.