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What's the motivation behind vibe-hobbying?
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I've always been fascinated by computers could use them well, build them, and even fully switched to Linux about 6 years ago, but had several false starts in trying to learn programming.
When I heard about being able to run my own locally, I thought I could give it all the No Starch Press ebooks I had accumulated and have it teach me the basics of coding and python. I liked the idea because I could plausibly ask it the same questions or to explain concepts in different ways without feeling like I was being annoying.
As it turns out, building my own AI/ML/LLM oriented homelab became the hobby. Buying sxm2 GPUs, mezzanines and cabling, modeling and printing structural members to support these weird components in my open air frame, and ultimately becoming a full blown nixOS zealot to functionally stitch it all together.
I look at it like throwing pottery. The agent gives me the initial lump of clay and I can break/iterate/question and eventually shape the design as part of the refining process as I begin to understand what the smaller pieces need to do.