I've spent the past few months working on little projects mostly coded via LLMs. Used it to build my own little AI agent in python attempting to keep it stdlib-only, and a little blog engine with MFA. Things I would never have previously been able to do as a sysadmin/infrastructure but not developer. The struggle I'm finding with it is how to go from good enough for me to good enough for production. After being stuck in QA/review hell trying to use LLMs to assess the code, I've started trying to unpick it myself. I can't help but feel that the time spent learning the vibe-coding approach wouldn't have been better spent just learning software development properly.

While that's been frustrating, most my fun has been on the non-tech side. To get a break from the computer last year, I ran the length of Japan (around 3,400 km). And now I've been helping my partner edit the videos and stick them on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50oQQThXWnc&list=PLVFWiVG-hZ...