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it's today's trend! One I happen to agree with, which is nice.

I'm trying to limit LLM exposure on this one to "as little as possible, within reason". It's still a tool and can be used effectively in some areas.

For some reason the hubub around non-AI software reminds me of produce.

'Guaranteed 100% locally open-sourced, free-range, ~~GMO~~AI-free code!'

I expect as there is a shift to vibe coding, saying "human coded" is going to be similar to "free from artificial colours and flavours".

Wouldn't it be called Foragarr then?

That's an interesting point. In my years of running them all I've always needed a third-party something to upgrade or find missing media. I don't exactly know why the built-in systems don't work, but they genuinely do not seem to. I'll occasionally see a scan go off but, for some reason, nothing ever gets picked up.

So, yeah; long story short, the built-ins don't work and I don't know why and this was still easier than trying to figure it out.

Edit: if you're curious, give Fetcharr a try and let me know if it does anything for you. It's free and takes a couple minutes. It should be pretty immediate, if your experience ends up being anything like mine.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rckopd/huntarr_your_passwords_and_your_entire_arr_stacks/

TLDR: huntarr was vibe-coded and had tons of security issues. When the "developer" was confronted, he nuked the git repo, his github account and all his social media accounts.

It was vibe-coded and exposed all of your API keys publically

it was strangled to death by the maintainer (probably) after a breaking story on Reddit about its security flaws though since they disappeared from the internet nobody knows for sure what happened to it.

good catch! I forgot that existed.

Not sure what you mean by that. I occasionally use the web UI as the tool that it is and I've played around with opencode, cursor, etc previously on other home projects to get a sense for where things are and what the limits of these things are. That said, I take pride in my own work and this project is no exception. Is there something in this project that makes you think I threw a prompt into cursor and am passing that off as my own? Or are you against the idea of using an LLM and consider any person or project using them at all to be vibecoded?

As a quick edit, I'll note that, since I documented any use of ChatGPT reasonably well in this project, you can see the number of times it was used and what it provided. I feel the contributions were largely inconsequential and really just time-saving on my end. I also vetted (and understood!) the output and modified it according to what I wanted. Personally, I don't consider that to be "vibe-coding" but I suppose everyone has their own definition.

Edit again: ugh, it's far too easy to focus on negative feedback and let that consume you. I am not going to defend my use of ChatGPT but I personally think that someone seeing the word ChatGPT and saying "oh so this is vibe-coded" is disingenuous to the project and my skills as a developer. I spent years learning and mastering Java and this is a lot of my experience and several weekends of my free time. Look, if you feel that the four uses of ChatGPT, much of which have been modified by my own hand and all of which inconsequential, constitutes a vibe-coded system then that's your take - but I don't think it's a fair take. There are many things to be said about the ethics of modern LLMs and over-reliance on them but personally I think understanding and effectively using tools at your disposal is a skill. If you want something completely free of LLMs these days you may very well have to invent the universe.

Phew. Okay, I'm off my soap-box. Consider me got. I'll try not to think about this too hard but it definitely feels bad pouring your time and skills into a thing and seeing that one comment saying "nah this isn't worth anything"

It's for movies and tv to "find and fetch missing or upgradable media." Huntarr was the go-to app but it had security concerns and the maker's responses were negatively received. In the last couple of weeks, some people have presented AI slop replacements for Huntarr.

that's a decent point. Not everyone knows about the Huntarr saga (Reddit link but that's where the story broke) and what it did.

The idea is that you'll occasionally want to go through all your media and make sure it's the best quality available and that nothing's missing. New releases get published, remuxes sometimes fix issues, etc. This little CLI container goes through and periodically searches everything you connect it to, so you don't have to sacrifice hours of your weekend doing manual hunting.

Edit: as a couple have pointed out this is supposed to happen automatically with built-in searches. In my experience this isn't the case but ymmv and if what you've got works for you then that's great!

if you haven't yet, I'd check out Configarr and the trash guides as a baseline to create profiles that upgrade media to a certain standard so simply hitting the search button will give you what you want. That's likely the best option, though it could theoretically be done in Fetcharr itself.

I don't want to balloon the project but I had an idea early on that people would want customization if I released it, so I thought about adding a sort-of "plugin" system where Fetcharr loads jar files from a directory and they get an API to access and use as needed.

I haven't figured out the details yet. That'll be another weekend, or a contribution from someone. The idea and skeleton is there, though.

Edit: missed the dry run part. That's a great idea! The worst that can happen is that it triggers upgrades (there's no code to modify anything) but it's still a reasonable ask.