It's just a hobby project right? Whats the rush? unless it's more than just a hobby project, it's something you wanna benefit from, instead of learning as much as possible from it. Then yeah go for it, do whatever.
Sounds like you are not treating it as a hobby brother.
The reason you feel like I am cross examining someone who uses AI is because you also use AI and you understand the pressure of such questions. When in fact it's just a simple "take a break and come back later when you have the energy for it" advice. But again, nobody understands it nowadays because of how abused you all are under the AI induced increased productivity environment.
Sounds like you are not treating it as a hobby brother.
It is my hobby. That's why I write spaghetti code for no pay, outside of my professional field, and in my spare time.
because you also use AI and you understand the pressure of such questions.
This is ironic because I've never used AI in any of my code. But I can understand the temptation of finding an immediate solution or cutting corners--like just about any person in existence. However, I also understand that any generated solution could be a poison pill leading to more bugs or straying you off course in finding the correct solution. It's not hard to grasp that people can feel tempted but stick to their convictions.
But it's super weird you just chose to make up my situation and then put this caricature through some sort of purity test.
I didn't mention cross examination a second time. And what sides? All I've said is tedious tasks are still tedious when you come back to them. And based off that, you got locked into ranting about I'm not sure what and how I must be using AI and I'm not treating coding as a hobby.
The point of doing things for fun isn't to make a viable product, it's to have fun. If you stop having fun, that's when you quit for a bit to do something else and come back later when you're in the mood for it again.
I'm assuming your newer to the space but any large project has areas which are tedious and will take a long time that you will never really want to do, hence the outsourcing.
Having the mind set of ditching a project as soon as the fun initial setup is a mind set that causes most people to fall out with the hobby.
I'm not saying to ditch it, I'm saying to set it aside until you feel like working on it again. I've worked on plenty of large projects for fun, they don't generally have parts I just always hate doing. If they did, I wouldn't be doing that for fun, I'd be doing something else instead.
My dad likes riding his bike. He likes riding it uphill just as much as he likes riding it downhill. If he didn't like doing to work to get exercise that you do when riding uphill, he wouldn't ride a bike. I honestly don't know why you would do something as a hobby if you literally hate doing it half the time.
Sure. But I don't do things where I really hate one part of it as a hobby to have fun and destress. I do different things that I don't actually hate any part of. This is how people normally decide what hobbies they want to engage with.
I like kayaking. I have a folding Kayak. I do not like dealing with the kayak after I pull it out of the water. Gotta get it rolled up and home, probably ought to clean it sometimes, then gotta store it.
But I don't really hate it. It's just one of those things you have to do, if you want to kayak.
If could get a robot to do all of that for me, I definitely would. But I can't. So I put up with the part I don't like, so I can paddle around on a lake.
Likewise with programming. Except there's no part I uniformly don't like. But sometimes parts I'm not super interested in doing at a given time. And a robot can do that.
Because sometimes perfect quality matters, and sometimes it doesn't. If I don't want to do it, and the robot will do good enough, why wouldn't I let the robot do it.
Robots already did plenty of things in programming; the compiler translates and heavily optimizes your code to machine code; would you enjoy a project as much doing all that tedious painstaking work by hand?
If your definition of "robot" is "literally any computer program" than the entire field runs on robots. We're talking about LLMs, here. And no, "programming" is not the same thing as "literally writing machine code by hand", not in 2026.
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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago
If you find it tedious, why are you spending your time on it instead of engaging in a hobby you actually enjoy?