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What's the motivation behind vibe-hobbying?
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I like making stuff that works. I went into programming for that and had a blast at all different levels of the stack. Now there is a new level and I am having a blast with it.
Some people carve wood with a knife. Some people carve with chainsaws. It may look similar, and the skills are similar, but it is slightly different projects.
I gamedev as a hobby. I have several gameplay demos that work thanks in no small parts to various python libs that make it waaaaay faster to iterate than when I was doing it in C++. Now LLMs allow me to iterate even faster.
And what's nice is that I know it will remain a hobby because the amount of hate that you get when you release anything that has any amount of LLM-generated code is... insane. So I will keep it for me.