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What's the motivation behind vibe-hobbying?
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Well, I code for hobby and passion. And I also use llm both for documentation and also coding.
The point is that maybe I really have no interest in deep diving into yet another API or library shenanigans and having an ai wrote up the code is a massive step up. I will then revise and adapt as needed, and learn the API or library in the process cutting down time by a factor of 1/4.
Or maybe there is a boring task o don't want to do or redo, ai is also great at that.
Lastly, maybe somebody ask for a feature or something to be added to my software and I don't want or have to waste time on it, but it's actually useful so an ai quick start let me implement that faster.
Just because it's a hobby doesn't mean you have to grind trough it... It's even more fun to focus on what you love and delegate what you don't love so much.
Ai is a tool, better learn how to use it properly...