It’s time we start having these conversations — whether we like it or not. I caught myself thinking about this just today while vibe coding a side project primarily for myself — a Telegram bot to download YouTube videos and long podcasts, splitting them into multiple files. Over time wanted more and more of the features like ad removal, creating clips and captioned gifs. Heck, I even added search, bi-weekly recommendations and subscriptions. Sounds like a dream, but in reality I had to spend obnoxiously long time testing every little feature Claude screwed up. Because of course it did on the first try. But when it works, it really is a joy to use. You ask what needs to be done and simply don’t bother getting into implementation details, docker image build errors and many other annoying issues. It truly is a joy to use, even if it is very unreliable. This got me thinking: what if I had access to these tools as a kid? I sure did love tinkering. But I took time to study and learn the…
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