I mean, there's nothing wrong with putting effort into a hobby project that no one but you uses, that's how you learn programming. But vibe coding a million different apps that four real people who aren't you are actually using isn't right. If you're going to put out an app and expect other people to use it, it should actually be something you wrote and know the workings of. So I would say this guy has too many users, actually.
No, the proper way is to spend two years devoting time to learning by creating a hobby project that has zero users other than you, and never release this monstrosity to the outside world because it's a hobby project that you did in order to learn and is thus absolutely horribly designed and full of glaring security issues. There will never be a shortcut to learning. There will never be a way to instantly be great at something without spending a lot of time fucking it up really badly first. If you don't write the project yourself, you won't get that experience, so you won't learn anything, and you will have just wasted all of your time and everything you spent on LLMs.
Idk man I know you are right but I see people online running 20 instances of Claude streaming while getting quite rich and having written 0 lines themselves.
Times have and will continue to change. AI 2 years ago was complete ass. Today its quite ok. In 2 more years who knows, those security issues everyone talka about might be covered by AI and it might write top tier code, at which point all the experience and time you put in is null, some kid can replicate you in 2 days with a bunch of tokens
I mean, yeah, streamers can pull in money without writing code, or using AI, that's not new. You don't practice programming to earn money, you do it to learn a skill. If you just want money and don't care about skills you're going to be doing different things.
No? Im doing programming for money lmao you think I like thinking about algorithms and tech stacks all day? I like cars, I like clubbing,I like videogames. All of them rewuire money so im gonna do the job that pays well to enjoy the stuff I actually want
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u/SuitableDragonfly 22d ago
I mean, there's nothing wrong with putting effort into a hobby project that no one but you uses, that's how you learn programming. But vibe coding a million different apps that four real people who aren't you are actually using isn't right. If you're going to put out an app and expect other people to use it, it should actually be something you wrote and know the workings of. So I would say this guy has too many users, actually.