Comment by Thanemate
16 hours ago
>I’m not sure how people get joy out of constantly vibe coding new projects. It feels like binge watching Netflix shows.
It's just power fantasy. It's amazing the first couple of times but as it wears off and becomes the new norm you forgot how being the one who decides which thing does what feels like.
Luckily (or unluckily?) the industry only cares about the end result, and flushes out people who used to reward for their passion and dedication naturally.
A lot of this is from non-tech workers wanting to expand their repertoire as well.
They have no clue what they're doing programming-wise, and in some cases this is perfectly fine, but after years of SaaS, some people are taking it to extremes, and spending millions of tokens on things that could be a spreadsheet or a note in the calendar.
Just recently we had someone deliver a report in the format of a 200.000 LOC application that requires several clusters to run, for example. It does all querying in real time from clandestine APIs, or by crawling existing systems. The person who asked for the report asked for it not to be deployed.
I get nothing of the power fantasy, of it, but I do get joy out of vibe coding.
As I've gotten older, the amount of ideas I have here and there has remained constant, while the time I have, or brain power at the end of the day when I can work on my passion projects, has diminished. What was once basically a second day job at night became family time, baths, dinner, etc. So while I may be too exhausted to sit and code, I am not too tired to sit and type my ideas, or discuss a single feature I want to see, or review what's there. I get joy that ideas are getting out of my head faster despite less brainpower to get them there. I can always grab the reigns and take over myself, but that's not the kind of thing that wins against going to bed.