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   Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 12:39:43 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

   • Run your own homelab

   RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/116004012953644853

   Note: long rant below.

   Last week I put up a poll asking people if they would stop or keep using a given app/software once they find out that it has been partially or fully developed using AI/vibe code. You can see the poll and the results below.

   But now I want to give my personal response to the poll, and my unscientific analysis of the results (and the comments).

   My personal response: "depends". As many things in life, it depends on a lot of factors. Do I like it? Is it useful? Is it critical? Does it handle sensitive/private information/PII? Does it send or store data somewhere else where I can't control? There are multiple factors to consider, so I don't discard it "just because AI". I have discarded software for various other reasons that have nothing to do with how they were coded, which language they're written with or which tool was used to build/distributed it. AI for sure is not an immediate red flag for me.

   As to my unscientific analysis: as you can see by the poll results it was a relatively tight tie between "I'm out" and "depends". Even though the people who would give it up in a heartbeat have the majority of the votes (45%), they do not account for the majority of the opinion. Simply put: 55% would most likely keep using it. Everyone have their reasons for doing so, and some people wrote down theirs (great comments), but the interesting fact to me is that the people who are totally against the use of AI simply did not spend any time putting out a comment. I don't know if they think me or the people who would read the comments are not worth the effort, or if they are so strictly set in their ways that they don't want to waste time explaining or exposing themselves to a debate. I really don't know. You make your own judgment.

   I will just repeat what I said in another post about a month ago: one very important piece of wisdom that age gave me is to not disregard or disdain any technology. I've been in this world for quite a while. I've been using computers since before the consumer-level internet existed. I keep my eyes peeled, and my ears to the ground. For better or for worse.

   Just saying.

   #HomeLab @homelab

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     Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 13:30:38 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

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     • pygora

     @pygora @homelab
     Well. I learned that in technology the only absolute thing is that division by zero causes an error. Everything else is relative. 😄

     And I did mention some of my "depends" on my long post, so I hope that helps provide some direction to my vagueness. 😉

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     pygora (pygora@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 13:30:39 JST pygora

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     @badnetmask @homelab While I appreciate your insight on not rushing to discard a new technology, I strongly disagree with your analysis of the responses you received.

     "It depends" isn't an answer, it's many different answers wrapped into two words. It is vague and thus invites explanation. "It depends on _" is an answer, so people feel compelled to reply and provide a concrete response.

     "Yes, absolutely" is a concrete answer. No further explanation is needed to wholly respond to the prompt.

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     pygora (pygora@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 13:36:27 JST pygora

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     @badnetmask @homelab The "it depends" option even has a "..." baked into the choice, lol.

     For my part, I responded that would stop using the app because of the framing of "after some time you find out it was vibe coded". In this scenario I (maybe incorrectly) assumed that I had browsed the source before using it and didn't see much if any AI code, and then later discovered that major parts of the codebase were rewritten or modified with vibe code.

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     Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 13:36:27 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

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     • pygora

     @pygora @homelab
     I see your point.

     But in the scenario I presented you would have used the app first, before reading the code or going to the forums or the issues page, so you already have some sort of opinion about it (probably positive), before knowing how it's made.

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     Alexander S (alexgreen@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 13:46:22 JST Alexander S

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     @badnetmask Interesting results.
     Since the question is broad, I'd go for 'it depends'.
     If I know that the app is developed by a non technical person who didn't analyze a single line of code - I wouldn't touch it.
     However, if some tasks are automated and set to generate a code that's checked by humans and has thoughtful design/architecture - why not?

     Personally I use some agent help to speed up code generation that I check and test.
     As a devops engineer, my main duties are not writing a code... It's just a tool to solve tasks

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     Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Feb-2026 13:46:22 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

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     • Alexander S

     @alexgreen
     > As a devops engineer, my main duties are not writing a code... It's just a tool to solve tasks

     Right? 😉