> I'm substituting my own[0] vibe coding for buying[1] apps. Language mini-games to help with German? A few prompts. Fluid dynamics simulation for an airzooker? Vibed. A web app listening for a MIDI keyboard, upon which you can drop some .midi files, and get a rhythm action game to learn the piano? Vibed. Webcam for my Raspberry Pi? Vibed. Getting Marathon 2 (well, the open sourced and upgraded engine, Aleph One) working as a web app? Vibed. Isochrone maps? Vibed.

When do you have time for all of this? I don’t mean the vibing part but the using the app part.

I agree that agents are super good for one shotting throwaway code for tasks that would have required manual human actions previously but I would never have bothered buying an app for that.

Not having to deal with IT support for relatives is a win though since now I can just throw it at an LLM!

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ben_w 2 days ago | parent [-]

> When do you have time for all of this? I don’t mean the vibing part but the using the app part.

Mix of this being spread over more than a year, that I'm not doomscrolling because HackerNews and Telegram are my main social media presences, and being unemployed/prematurely retired (which one depends on what one thinks of €1k/month passive income and no rent).

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dominotw 2 days ago | parent [-]

Thats amazing. Family and kids path is getting less and less attractive everday. hobbies > family.

	▲	ben_w 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		FWIW, I regret not having had kids yet. I am also weirdly unmotivated by opportunities to spend money, which is both how I got this passive income and lack of rent, and why it's borderline enough for me. FIRE is very easy when all your working life, you only spend rent+50%, the rest of your paycheque going to savings and investments; but most people can't do this.