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!
I’m a professional software engineer, ~15 years experience. Working in this industry slowly made me hate programming more and more; up until a few years ago, I used to love writing code by hand and untangling problems and all of that. But now, I just kinda hate it. It’s not fun anymore. At work, I don’t even really get to write code anymore, because all of my time is spent on dealing with people, trying to unfuck our process, trying to help the less-senior engineers on my team improve and grow, sitting in potentially 30+ hours of meetings every week, dealing with some of my coworkers (and especially the management types…) being meat proxies, and so on and so forth.
After all of that, when I’m done with work I don’t have the energy or desire to write code anymore. It no longer brings me joy, because my work has stolen it from me. However, my non-software hobbies still sometimes need custom software to fill my exact specific needs. So I end up vibing it into existence, because the other option is having nothing. I stopped caring about the code because, at the end of the day, my highly-specific hobby software just needs to work, not be good.
When people talk about LLMs and “agentic” coding and all the other stuff, the take I keep hearing is that there still needs to be a human in the loop. Well, the human in the loop is fucking exhausted and doesn’t have the desire to care about the code anymore.