Comment by the_harpia_io

I've been doing this too and it's genuinely changed how I think about side projects. used to be I'd plan for weeks then abandon after hitting some annoying plumbing work - auth, deployment, whatever. now I just describe what I want and iterate. finished more projects in the last 3 months than the previous 2 years.

but there's a weird thing that happens when you build for yourself and don't read the code carefully. I caught one of my little internal tools storing API keys in localStorage because that's what the LLM decided to do and I never questioned it. for a personal tool running locally it probably didn't matter much but it made me think about what else I'm not catching. the whole "audience of one" framing kind of implies you can skip the boring review parts but idk, some of those boring parts exist for reasons even when nobody else will use it. I still vibe code everything now but I've gotten way more paranoid about actually reading what gets generated, at least the parts that touch anything sensitive