I’m unsure, if this is the right community for this, but I’m really curious about agenic vibe coding for hobby projects. As in: I have trouble gasping the reasoning behind it, especially given it’s current prevalence.
I really like programming to the point of creating a lot of what I’d label “art for noone”. I’m also tangentially interested in ML ever since reading the DeepDream papers.
But, the whole “agentic” hobby stuff feels weird to me. I just don’t get why anyone would give their hobby project over to a machine. I get that people use is for work. I even understand how someone may want to sell slop for a quick buck, even if I hate that idea.
But your personal hobby game project? Why would I have a computer do my hobby for me?
Even not minding the ethical questions. I genuienly don’t get it. And worse, I feel like a lot of people vibe coding their hobby away, are not even interested in the technology, outside of getting it do their hobby.
I know this comes over a bit critiquey, perhaps because it is a little. But mostly I’m dumb founded. Thanks for any insights. Please don’t meat-proxy.
Edit: Just want to mention, I read and appreciate all comments. I just find my own replies sound too harsh, and I don’t want to discourage anyone from weighing in. Thank you!
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.