Great timing - I've taken up vibecoding and picked personal tools with simple HTML/CSS/JS/python stack as the learning ground too.

Personal tools seem like a reasonable place for happy path vibecoding given small blast radius and LLMs can do that sort of static page in front of python backend really well.

I've also been surprised how much active learning I'm doing despite specifically not look at code. Between the need to spec things out carefully (plan.md) and fast iteration loop it's been a huge boost. Having the LLM look at a plan.md and suggest improvements has lead to a lot of "oh I didn't think about that" learning on architecture and user requirements link.

Presumably much of that learning boost is because I'm a hobbyist tier programmer, guessing professionals wouldn't experience the same since they learned this via manual coding trial & error over years.

> Presumably much of that learning boost is because I'm a hobbyist tier programmer, guessing professionals wouldn't experience the same since they learned this via manual coding trial & error over years.

I can only speak for myself and my not-quite two decades of professional experience, but yes pretty much!

It’s neat to see that sped up for others though with lower stakes, though it’s not quite the same unless you prompt your agent to question you back a lot (Claude is much better at this in my experience)