I play video games for fun. I also enjoy automation games where the point is to get the game to play itself. I like achievements, but I won't "cheat" to get them.
My company pays me to build software that helps make them money. They don't care how I write that software as long as I do it fast and correctly. If that's by hand, I'll do it by hand. If vibe coding can get the job done, then I'll do that.
"Vibe coding" isn't just writing specs. It's ensuring that the vibe coding process doesn't introduce regressions, new bugs, etc. My boss writes specs for me, which, if I were to naively plop them into cursor or Claude code, would generate stuff that kinda works but not in a way that could be considered production ready. I plan, adjust the plan, generate, regenerate, refine. Could it be done faster by hand? Maybe. But it's the tool I've chosen for the job and the bosses are happy with it.
I like my manager but I think what many people don't seem to understand is that the manager tends to be the bottleneck. We were moving as fast as he was able to give requirements even without AI, and now we're being told to use as much AI as makes sense and now we just more product roadblocks faster. We may be shipping faster but amortized over all the roadblocks I'd say our velocity is like 10% faster.
I've been playing around with T2I/I2V generation to make some NSFW stuff of video-game characters using ComfyUI.
It's pretty easy to get something decent. It's really hard to get something good. I share my creations with some close friends and some are like "that's hot!" but are too fixated on breasts to realize that the lighting or shadow is off. Other friends do call out the bad lighting.
You may be like "it's just porn, why care about consistent lighting?" and the answer for me is that I'm doing all this to learn how everything works. How to fine tune weights, prompts, using IP Adapter, etc. Once I have a firm understanding of this stuff, then I will probably be able to make stuff that's actually useful to society. Unlike that coke commercial.
I was overemployed from 2021 to 2024. I worked two full-time start-up jobs (well, a W2 job and a full-time contract position that was for all intents and purposes a full-time W2 job, just that it paid me without the deductions and such). One was an early stage start-up and the other was a growing startup that eventually got acquired.
During my tenure at both companies, my higher-ups liked my performance so much that when it was time to select people for raises/promotions/rate increases etc, I was among the few selected. I took this as a sign that my half-performance was valued enough to earn me more money so I wanted to stay like this forever.
I interviewed at a company that hid the fact that they wanted 996 until my first day there. It was 6pm my time, I was done for the day, eating dinner, and I got a call from the east coast team to review a PR. PR got merged and he asked, "what are you working on for the rest of the night?" and I was blunt. "I'm done for the night. Bye." sent my resignation in that same night.
I'm convinced that no one can ever be productive for 8 hours a day, let alone 12 hours a day. And indeed, I certainly wasn't productive for 8 hours a day when working two jobs. But I got stuff done.
At what point do we as a society agree that putting more hours doesn't necessarily create more results? We are in an era of increased economic output, but it's not trickling down. People aren't being paid more, they're being asked to work more. It just seems like the bar just keeps arbitrarily getting higher and higher, for the same financial benefit.
In my idealized society, we'd have universal basic income. That way no one would HAVE to work. When people work because they WANT to, they get to be more creative. I believe work output would increase. To say nothing of the non-economic outputs that would result (arts, music, etc).
Yes, I know the system wouldn't be perfect, and blah blah blah socialism, but a flawed great system would be better than our current flawed shitty system.
My company pays me to build software that helps make them money. They don't care how I write that software as long as I do it fast and correctly. If that's by hand, I'll do it by hand. If vibe coding can get the job done, then I'll do that.
"Vibe coding" isn't just writing specs. It's ensuring that the vibe coding process doesn't introduce regressions, new bugs, etc. My boss writes specs for me, which, if I were to naively plop them into cursor or Claude code, would generate stuff that kinda works but not in a way that could be considered production ready. I plan, adjust the plan, generate, regenerate, refine. Could it be done faster by hand? Maybe. But it's the tool I've chosen for the job and the bosses are happy with it.