To be clear I’m not sure what I’m doing is vibe coding because I write some of the code and read/understand what the LLM writes.

I think I’m learning less (about the code) but making more. Maybe that’s okay? There are other things to learn about. My code has users, it processes money. I user test, I iterate, I see what works and what they need.

Yeah, the term "vibe coding" is really overloaded these days. I, too, make detailed plans for the LLM, but that's just what works for me, I don't care enough to give it an exact name. I'm having fun, and that's what counts.

Ditto. I have done 6 projects over the last 12 months, and wrote up 3 of them on my web site, I also usually post a link either here, or hackaday, or the other maker sites, most of my work these days is repurposing broken commercial or consumer electronics by replacing the PCB's to give things a second life (eg <https://rodyne.com/?p=3380>). I've been making things since 1981, vibe coding just makes it easier for me to work with more complicated stuff.

Oh man, I have that exact same CD player! That project is great, well done.

Thanks, just browsed to your blog, I did some board designs a few years back for another guy with a horticulture business, that little ESP clock project you just did would have been ideal back then. Amazing the tech you can get for a few dollars these days.

Seriously, it's a great time to be a hacker.

And I make visualizations by watching TV every day. My visual cortex just has a constant stream of making visualizations all day.

All these maker types dropping that differentiator immediately in the name of pragmatism.

Yeah whatever, I'm not going to let you gatekeep my enjoyment. What's the last thing you made?

> Yeah whatever, I'm not going to let you gatekeep my enjoyment.

I see.

> What's the last thing you made?

Based on you outranking me in the gatekeeping hierarchy. :)

It's been four days, let it go man.

I’ve never written “maker” in my bio. What are you trying to prove?

That your opinion on who's a "real maker" and who isn't is irrelevant.

It doesn’t take an aviator to see that someone who instructs a program to run a flight simulator is not a practicing pilot.

Usually people would try to become rich so they could pay others to make stuff for them, now you can just spend a moderate amount of money having an LLM make it for you.