Is this Android SSH app vibe coded?
For context, Haven is a fairly new open source (GPLv3) SSH client for Android.
At first when I saw this I was eager to explore it: there isn't much choice in terms of open source SSH clients for Android. Termius is proprietary, ConnectBot is unmaintained (but recently has had some new activity?) and JuiceSSH was never open source afaik. Currently I am using Termux + openssh but that's not great either (e.g. no FIDO ssh key support).
However upon further inspection I am a little suspicious that AI is used significantly for a few reasons:
- Claude has contributed a few commits (but not many)
- Some of the markdown files (like VISION.md) read like AI generated text
- The way the author replies to issues and PRs also reads like AI generated text, with heavy use of em dashes and bold text unnecessarily
- The rate of commits and new features seems rather high for a single person working by themselves
Are my suspicions founded? Even if the author uses AI to generate documentation and reply to issues, I'm not sure about the actual code itself. SSH access is quite a sensitive thing so I'd like to know whether the client I am using is built with AI or not. Would appreciate your thoughts.
https://github.com/GlassOnTin/HavenOpen linkView original on lemmy.dbzer0.com
Yes https://github.com/GlassOnTin/Haven/compare/v0.5.6...v0.6.0#diff-037ea159eb0a7cb0ac23b851e66bee30fb838ee8d0d99fa331a1ba65283d37f7
JuiceSSH is pretty solid
Isn't this proprietary?
Then don’t use it.
The only way to know for sure is to ask the author - what did they say?
Looks like someone beat me to it: https://github.com/GlassOnTin/Haven/issues/42 As of yet no reply.
Better yet would be to read the code yourself and inspect every function such that you know exactly what it does
How would your behaviors change based on the author’s answer?