**#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primary function of Vigil is to centralize the information and give users clear visibility of which applications are outdated, their current version, and the newer version available from several sources.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.
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?
Hi Appoxo, I agree that AI can be slop, but it seems like it’s getting better over time. I’m not claiming that this is a revolutionary new application, it’s more like a prove of concept that I wanted to test out. What does it do? well, you basically have a centralized place to keep tracking of your docker images and get a notification when there’s a new release so you can update it manually or automatically as you wish that’s the main utility of it. There are a few other things but, maybe thye aren’t interesting enough.
Have you vibecoded this?
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
Even this comment stinks of LLM style. Please stop trying to bring about the dead internet.
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.
Hi markko, you’re right, adding a tag would certainly lower expectations and give more clarity to projects. I’ll add this on the post and to the repo.
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