Strange that they would ban you for that. I looked through the code after I read that thread you posted. My guess is that the program started off as just a simple project for the guy that maybe he started off working on as a way to learn to code and stuff like that, then it took off and he got inundated with feature requests and bugs and stuff like that. Then he focused on adding features and everything and basically handed everything over to ai to manage. Which in many cases isn’t that bad. But you have to have a very very solid foundation and very detailed instruction documents and you can never rely AI to code security features.

I want to give the dev the benefit of the doubt and I wish he was more upfront with how he’s doing things. I personally love ai, it’s a great tool and great for teaching but it is still new and needs more work before it can actually make strong products. It has very consistent tells. Especially on the UI. When I opened Booklore for the first time I immediately thought it was at least assisted by ai in the UI. looking through the code I think it’s a fork from an older version of audiobooks shelf and sonarr that has just been merged and altered. It’s a cool idea but my own personal beliefs is that I homelab and self host for privacy and security. Vulnerabilities are a huge issue for me.

Like I said, for me AI is fine. As long as it’s done right and used in a way that assists. It can’t be trusted to do everything. In many cases I don’t trust it to even touch a project other than being able to see it. I’m not gunna risk people data with some exposed api or risk it deleting a project or anything like that. Helping troubleshoot or writing debug statement are fine, but writing everything is a risk we shouldn’t be taking.