> Creating a polished, usable app is just so much work, and so much of it isn't fun at all (to me).

Then don’t do it. No one is forcing you. Are you also going to complain that building airplanes and ensuring food safety are too much work and not fun for you? Not everything needs to be or should be dumbed down to appeal to lowest common denominator.

Alternatively, go work at a company where you’re part of a team and other people do what you do not enjoy.

> I'm sitting here building polished apps in a fraction of the time

No, no you are not, guaranteed. “Polishing” means caring about every detail to make it perfect. If you’re letting the LLM make most of it, by definition it’s not polished.

This is coming across as the "hobby police" here telling everyone what they can and can't do... I'm sure it wasn't meant that way but it reads that way.

The airplane company wont let you vibe code their systems anyway, and rightly so. the rest of us can just do whatever we like.

> Then don’t do it. No one is forcing you.

No one is also keeping me from doing what I want to spend my time with on my days off.

> Are you also going to complain that building airplanes and ensuring food safety are too much work and not fun for you?

No, because this isn't remotely comparable to weekend hobby projects. What a weird question.

> No, no you are not, guaranteed. “Polishing” means caring about every detail to make it perfect. If you’re letting the LLM make most of it, by definition it’s not polished.

I guess we have different definitions of "polished" then.