Proposal: Add Hotness -.25 to Vibe Coding

50 points by veqq

Without filters, vibecoding is 1/3 of the front page. This is bad.

Potentially -.35 if need be.

wrs

May I also suggest, for the umpteenth time, FIXING THE TAG. The current definition is ungrammatical and ambiguous, and (depending on your personal interpretation) overbroad:

Using AI/LLM, coding tools. Don't also tag with ai.

If we want to keep what I think the current definition is, "any use of LLMs for any purpose", make that the definition and make the tag "llmusage". The presence of "coding" is confusing and overbroad.
If we want it to mean "any use of LLMs for coding assistance", make that the definition (i.e., remove the comma) and make the tag `llmcoding" or something. I suggest another tag "llmusage" is then needed.
If we want it to be limited to the actual meaning of "vibecoding", make the definition "autonomous coding by LLM agents", and leave the tag alone. I suggest "llmusage" is needed in that case too.

(I don't have a lot of hope for this since we've already had two big threads where all this is pointed out and absolutely nothing happens, but I'll keep trying. For a while anyway.)

raymii

You mention it briefly, but you can filter out the tag?

gnyeki

I would still like to see vibecoding posts but less of the left tail of the score distribution.

Student

There’s a lot of stuff that’s basically the same thing being posted. I think we should establish how long to wait before the hotness mod is needed. Two days?

This sort of flood seems to periodically happen for certain topics and then subside.

james

lobste.rs already has a voting system and algorithm which determines what gets onto the front page and for how long. Why would some particular group's preference override the upvotes of some other people? Where would that end?

satvikberi

There are already tag-specific adjustments, search for "hotness" on https://lobste.rs/filters
- james
  
  For specific use cases, not for general ongoing adjustment of trends, and set by benevolent dictator admin, not voteable by membership.
alper

Also I'd like anything that's just a non-technical take on vibecoding to also be tagged "practices" (or maybe marked off-topic) and then can we filter on combos?
fedemp

I'm with you that there seem to be a long list of vibecoding tagged posts, but I get the impression that ironically many of them, and specially those that are upvoted, are critical of vibecoding.
- jdpage
  
  A flood of critical takes can be just as tiresome as a flood of positive ones. I want to stay on top of developments but I also want to hear about other stuff.
freddyb

I want to mention that this would be the first technical label to be subject to hotness modifications. The existing ones are culture/rant/meta/satire (lower hotness) and "announce"(higher).

That being said, there is precedent to discussions for some tech being considered off-topic. A lot of crypto-currency or "web3" posts were removed or marked as off-topic, except those that were truly about merkle-trees :) In addition, the "merkle-trees" label was marked as a label that can't be used by new users to combat spam. A status that the vibecoding label already shares.

The tricky question is though: Where is the line? Lots of posts in the vibecoding label have been manually upvoted a lot. That means there's some universal agreement it's interesting?

Maybe someone can do some stats on label-average-popularity and label-recency?