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theshrike79today at 8:13 PM0 repliesview on HN

> In my mind there are different buckets for personal projects. One is things I do to learn and grow and the other is things I really wish existed.

Pretty much 100% of projects I've done with vibe coding/engineering is in the second category. Stuff I need that either doesn't exist or exists, but is either horribly complex to configure or is a mess of 420 features even though I just need one of them.

It's a lot easier for me to implement that one specific feature just for myself than keep vigilant on an existing app's eventual scope creep as it progresses to the eventual ability to read email[0] =).

[0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html