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What's the motivation behind vibe-hobbying?
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There has to be two ways to look at it. Either you're doing some recreational coding. Or something more complex, so code quality matters to you, or the project being some kind of art. Or: you're just interested in some result. I've seen people vibe-code something like a Voice over IP stack and now my weird attempt at creating an Alexa can call people. I think it's awesome! But... Don't touch the code. I inevitably ran into issues and you really don't want to poke at AI code, that's super annoying to read. And it's going to refactor everything 5 minutes later, anyway.
Also, a lot of the vibe-coded hobby stuff I've seen gets abandoned after a few weeks. Not all if it. But I guess it's not that important to people, or connected with a deeper meaning. I guess it's really two very different approaches at "doing" something.