alt Hacker NewsI had fun playing around in Claude getting it to write 6502 assembler for the BBC Micro. It is fun to imagine what we could have built on those old machines with these new coding agents! But it is kind of hollow isn't it.
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Not for me. I do like having an agent at my disposition that accelerates the way into making those little experiments a reality. A sloppy reality? Maybe. But It's just tinkering, there's no other use case for this outside of saying "So this can be done, huh? Okay time to go to for a walk".
While it's totally respectable to treat your code as your personal zen garden, I like the idea of having a highway where I can make reality anything that comes from my imagination, and also having time for family, friends, work and exercising out of sedentarism.
It is fun to imagine what we could have built on those old machines with these new coding agents! But it is kind of hollow isn't it.
It's the difference between building a table yourself and telling someone else to build a table for you.
If you've never done anything for yourself, usually with your own hands, you don't understand the pleasure and satisfaction that comes from doing it.
And since "AI" isn't human, it can't know that feeling, either.
I think it's an issue for hobby projects. The other day I had a neat idea, looked into it and realized I would not have time to do it but still wanted to use it so I vibe coded it over an evening and there it was. But the code is not mine, I feel bad about it, it's completely hollow, I wish I had the time to do it properly. I'm glad I'm still hand coding my main hobby projects to avoid that.