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What's the motivation behind vibe-hobbying?
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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This, basically if I had about 100x the number of hours in the day currently, I might actually have enough time to be able to build everything myself from scratch, but I don't even get enough free time to spend more than 2-3h on personal projects a week. Most of these projects are means to an end and not exercises in honing my programming skills.
Now all half finished stuff and abandoned ideas are a relative thing of the past. Hell my personal projects have robust unit tests and everything now, that was never the case before.
When I actually do want to learn something programming related (like learning zig recently) I'm actually ironically more free to now focus on that stuff because I don't have the guilt that I should probably focus on fixing some half baked project that recently broke or something. I'm not going to learn much by writing my thousandth Python or Go app, so ollama can do it for me most of the time and I can focus on something more important.