What immich, ente, and the others weren’t enough? Had to still vibe code your own?
And I’m saying this as someone who enjoys vibe coding a few projects. I’m not against it. But it’s arrogance to assume you can vibe code something better than proven OSS alternatives
I didn’t make it, but I don’t see why people get upset that there are more of these projects out there. Something existing certainly never stopped people from making their own before either.
Making your own and creating it is great. Maintaining it for years its great. Its why there is so much respect for other projects. You can see the months and years of dedication right in the git history.
Vibe coding something and trying to be on par with the other projects is hubris. It’s assuming you can do a better job than the groups and maintainers with an AI tool. Then to make it worse, it will probably never be updated or maintained. That’s why I and I assume others dislike it. It’s minimal effort with the arrogance on top.
Like I said. I enjoy vibe coding things. I’ve done a few. However I don’t go and pitch them as alternatives to well known OSS projects, because I know my vibe coding could never compare.
Again, I don’t really see the difference here. Whether the authors continue to maintain the project long or not has little to do with what tools were used to build the project. And calling anything where LLMs are used for development vibecoding is just silly to be honest. There’s a huge variation in quality of code both in hand written code and that where LLMs are used. What you should be looking at in both cases is how much usage project gets, how good the tests are, whether authors built useful things before, and so on.
If a project is useful then I really don’t care how it’s coded. Existing projects are in no way diminished by the fact that this project exists.
This is a week-old repo with a 163,000-line initial commit, and the test repo that init was dumped in from is filled with hundreds of claude/codex co-author commits. Regardless of whether it’s to hide the ai co-authoring, it’s shady to obscure a repo’s initial work like that.
I could be wrong, of course, but this smells like yet another overambitious ai-slop project that’ll get abandoned in a month.
Yeaaah not to mention Immich already exists and is proven software.
There is also immich. But stuff like this feels very high tech to me. I just sync the folders for camera images and whatsapp images and videos to an SBC using syncthing. If I want to view them I use copyparty. You don’t get face recognition, encryption but it’s honest work.
