Comment by FeepingCreature
9 hours ago
> I’m not sure how people get joy out of constantly vibe coding new projects.
What? It's the simplest thing in the world. You get the product. Isn't that the point of all programming? You want a thing and you speak a magic incantation and then you have the thing, to keep and use.
> even if this thing is any good, someone with real capital can just direct a future AI at it to take it from me, so I’m not really gaining.
This kind of sounds like you're writing code for social credit. Like, you don't actually want the thing, you want to be "the person who made the thing". If you want the thing for its own sake, nobody can take it from you and what somebody with capital does on their own services does not harm your use one whit.
Well I used to imagine I’d make a business out of the thing. I also would sometimes think the thing could give me professional opportunities.
Sure. I do agree that AI is a problem in this sense: programmer skill as a hiring differentiator is becoming a lot less legible these days. It just feels personally odd to be the reason you do the thing. When I encountered my first programmable computer I very quickly realized that I wanted to do more of it, and not too much later that this was the thing I would spend the rest of my life doing. That it was also very commercializable, I have always considered as a kind of happy accident.
That’s my experience, starting at 10 years old and trying to figure out how the the moving pictures were in the screen.
I didn’t say that was the reason though. A person has a lot of wants and needs right?
I’m not following why it’s strange to want to be skilled and engage with the craft itself based on that part of the message to be honest. Maybe I’m misunderstanding.
I tried to convey in my first post that I’m gonna keep programming for no material gain and no way of producing anything of value for others. I am worried about how I’ll support myself but this thread is about the hobby.
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