> All my side projects exist to scratch my own itch,

That's exactly what the second group in my comment was meant to address. You enjoy the end product, therefore being able to skip the code writing is appealing.

The blog post is about someone who was having AI write a lot of side projects that they weren't even interesting in using. The post directly states that they were not useful, they didn't need them, and they weren't interested in maintaining or even finishing them.