This vibe coding thing is way too easy. took me about 2 hours to create an app I've been needing for a while now Now I have a simple configuration manager wrapper app. this should be useful for packaging umbrel apps and provider a user friendly config UI 😁

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coding before was similar, but I still had to manually write all lines myself. now I simply direct the AI to write specific features and then review its work, I still understand the code but I'm just not writing it anymore
transcription and massive refactors by hand are the greatest part of programming and could be done by trained monkeys. i'll accept a trained computer.
also, programming is the number one reason why i have an unusual ortholinear mechanical keyboard and touch type dvorak. second after that is writing too much on social media and chats
my favorite thing about LLM and coding agents is like what i just did today: built a whole Vulkan binding using a DLL loading library. some 180 methods and 120 data types lol. claude did almost the whole job in about 4 turns and 2 hours. i knew that wasn't difficult, just slow, after already doing the same with libsecp256k1 C library, but only implementing my signer interface for nostr cryptography. the rest is there and has a basic, almost identical API as the C version. this is the kind of task that never gets done enough or sufficiently thoroughly. all that tedious shit, repetitive details, etc. the LLM puts it together about 90% correct. sometimes there's stuff i want to do by hand, often drafting APIs or similar things, but i like not having to fuss over the details and not having to spend a month learning some new API, just fucking use it, that day.
yeah, but it still can't do everything, it takes time, and you can't supervise more than two or three concurrent threads before you make a mess also.
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