> That’s fun, more fun than Vibecodin anyway.

Been working on my own ORM / Framework for 15 years at this point. Had a laundry list of things I wanted to finish that would have taken me another 3-5 years and it was done in about a month. Still controlled every function name, every preference, every comment, even went in and manually rewrote function names and adjust how it did things. At one point I had to manually intervene in an algorithm because the AI fucked it up badly. Most of it's first try was garbage. It's true. But still in the end I didn't really have to type it out. Sometimes you've been living and breathing a code base for so long that you can just skim the function names and their contents and be content. So that's what happened. It only took a few sessions and I was done.

So it's over. Not only is it "done" exactly to my preferences with exactly all the right method names and configurations I have always dreamed of. It also has 100% unit test coverage AND on top of that I have a suite of benchmarks profiling it against similar libraries in order to provide an honest assessment.

This would simply not be possible before AI. It's a little bittersweet that my ongoing project is "done" but now I'm building things with it. So it's not all bad.

I encourage you to stop calling it "vibecoding" when you are, I presume a long time software engineer, and shove your hand into the guts of the code and force it into the submission sometimes.

> just built everything else you needed on your own

Exactly what I'm doing. Made my own task manager. Have my own harness. Have my own fork of $browser. Whatever.

I'm okay with this.

> Exactly what I'm doing. Made my own task manager. Have my own harness. Have my own fork of $browser. Whatever.

Dude you didn’t build anything. If you hired some programmers last year, to code up your task manager would you go around claiming that you “built” your task manager? I don’t understand where this “I built this” comes from.

Your joy is that something that was uneconomical before is cheap enough for you to buy now, which is fine, but don’t go getting it mixed up with actually building something.