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!
It takes 30 seconds for it to write a script that would take me 2 hours.
Takes me another 5 minutes to review it.
I’ve watched it spit out a script in 30 seconds that would take me 1-2 hours to write after I created a block diagram to make sure my logic and sequencing was sound.
And then that would’ve taken another day to validate it.
Instead I watched/read the script as it wrote it and could tell what it was doing well enough, and what I’d have to tweak.
Same. I don’t see an issue with it. I even learn stuff while I’m reviewing code. I feel like its making me a better dev.