| ▲ | ramon156 2 hours ago |
| I spent a lot of my time on the internet because I was lonely in my teens and these connections were exciting. I learned software dev because I was a nerd that loved math and loved the concept of building software, having complete control on how it's done. That was the concept I signed up for. Software dev today is sitting in front of a prompt bar, sometimes checking the IDE, sometimes some DevOps, but nothing about it excites me anymore. Even hobby projects are dull because they're done in mere days. Choosing not to use LLMs has little to no reward imo. I'm slowly moving away from software dev because the rose tinted glasses I saw the job as are shattering |
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| ▲ | mjr00 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Even hobby projects are dull because they're done in mere days. This is only true if your definition of "hobby project" is limited to "initial prototype with basic functionality and a generic corporate-looking landing page". Yeah, a lot of tools that would have made fun weekend projects can now be one-shot by Claude and aren't even worth sharing, because someone who needs that functionality can just use Claude too. But you can accomplish so much more now. Someone just did a hobby project to reverse engineer NVidia drivers and make them work on Windows XP. Dream bigger! |
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| ▲ | BatFastard an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I agree dream bigger! If it gets done too fast with LLM you need to think bigger. | | | |
| ▲ | socializer an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Indeed, your half-broken prototypes that are not worth sharing with the world can be now 10x the scale. But seriously, I have not seen anyone get far with vibecoded hobby projects. The problem is that removing the pain, the frustration, and the triumph also removes any emotional attachment you have to the project to keep it alive. If it's not making you money, if you're not learning anything, and if everyone can vibecode the same thing... well, it still gives you some short-term rush - as if by magic, your words birthed a piece of software - but then what? Why keep going? Why fix bugs, why keep improving it? If you look back at the past several months of "Show HN"-style posts, it's not pretty. | | |
| ▲ | swader999 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I've got my hobby project fully working the way I want and ready for the masses. I just am stuck trying to get the app in google/apple stores. Its a mental block, I'm stuck on taking the time to get it through the hoops and then don't really no where to start or want to for that matter with the marketing aspects. | |
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| ▲ | soundworlds an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Which is interesting, because I've always been a musician first and software dev as a side interest, and I feel like LLMs have made the software iteration loop fast enough that it feels as exciting as making music for me. I wonder if there's some blend of software and other interest that might rekindle that novelty for you? |
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| ▲ | laxd an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Robots in my garage doing woodwork would be nice. They'd be auto-orchestrated by all the spywares and spydevices already in place - and who knowns more about me and my ideas than me. And I don't have to learn anything. | | |
| ▲ | thunky 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | If you like sawing wood and gluing it together, just keep doing that. If you want a wooden dresser, buy one. Nobody does woodworking because it's necessary. | |
| ▲ | BatFastard 15 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | But I love the smell of freshly carved wood, you would miss out on that. | | |
| ▲ | 0c3ca83 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You can buy cedar-scented air fresheners on Amazon. Isn't buying a wooden dresser and an air freshener enough to rekindle the love of your calling? Look, the sides of the dresser are CNC-milled to a level of perfection you could never achieve at home. |
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| ▲ | 0c3ca83 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | For me, I've always been interested in music -- but now, I can have an AI generate limitless music, far better than anything I can do with less effort. Imagine if you never had to pick up a guitar, blowing a trumpet, or even opening a tracker ever again. You could just ask the AI to make music that made your best efforts look like a kindergartener's painting on the fridge. Isn't that a musician's utopia, surrounded by music without lifting a hand to make it? | |
| ▲ | altmanaltman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Which is interesting, because I've always been a musician first and software dev as a side interest, and I feel like LLMs have made the software iteration loop fast enough that it feels as exciting as making music for me. I don't quite get what you mean by this. Music is a form of expression; it is supposed to be effortless once you are good at it, but software (if we go by a strict definition) is not about expression but about building reliable and efficient systems. Like what do you mean exactly | | | |
| ▲ | esikich an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Probably not. They made "smart nerd" their whole personality and that is now being challenged, hurts the ego. |
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| ▲ | hollowturtle an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Even hobby projects are dull because they're done in mere days. Choosing not to use LLMs has little to no reward imo.
I'm slowly moving away from software dev because the rose tinted glasses I saw the job as are shattering Try solving a very hard problem or a very good game. Or at least publish some very good polished software, they all sucks! This really is a paradox, all this doomerism and AI that has solved “coding” and it’s “very good now” and we don’t mot only have not good software, but it’s getting worse! Good lord how the heck we get out of this situation? |
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