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What does it say about me that I used to have manic code production sprees in the past, but then more recently graduated to occasionally vibe coding and reviewing all the output, except I'm not being paid to do it, I'm doing it for my fun personal projects? It became less about the journey of coding my way out of a paper bag and more about having something to show for it and being able to play with the result for hours on end.
I may once have had Impostor Syndrome, but then I became the impostor.
Maybe I should ask my doctor to reduce my meds so I can have more manic coding sprees instead and not feel the need to use LLMs to do overwhelming tasks, when I can simply become the Mentat that everyone wants to be and pull off insane tasks in short order?
Like, one of the tasks I asked the bot to do, that someone else had a serious problem asking a bot to do for them, was to take two sets of source trees:
1) Project A and project B, project B depends on project A.
2) One pair of Git trees of the two projects, with one set of unmerged features I want to use, some of which I spent hours contributing to. These trees are modified from the original B project, in that A is now roughly on its master/head/tip, and B has been edited to work with this.
3) Another pair of Git trees of those same projects, except with different unmerged commits. Project B here is based on the last stable version commit, and project A is roughly 80 commits behind tip.
I want to merge the features added to the second set, on top of the repos from the first set.
So I prepare four clones of each repository, based on my local work directories. One of the last upstream commit, one at the head just past the out of tree work.
I am in some sort of rut, because I seriously thought it was cool that I could coax Claude into doing a four-way repo comparison, and port over commits, all while maintaining the style changes and service implementation detail rewrites applied to the newer tree. All while staying under 50% of my 5 hour session quota. Of the $20/mo plan.
What is wrong with me that I actually enjoy doing this? Am I some sort of middle management type? And yet I have no problem doing things manually, or even doing hours of boring refactoring by hand. It's almost as if I have some sort of confidence issue with turning any sort of multi-paragraph idea into a reality on my own. I can write out an idea, which immediately makes my desire to work on it evaporate.
#aibs #vibecoding