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As much as vibe coding is obviously ridiculous, using it as a crutch purposefully in this way is amazing. I heard someone call it a tool for energy management once and I feel that

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Thanks! Yeah another side project I used was once I got home assistant running I used ChatGPT to write a lot of ESP32 code for me to get some soil moisture sensors working for my outdoor garden. It also gave me a lot of input on the wiring up of the sensor and ESP32. And it helped me with the general concepts of ESP-IDF versus Arduino frameworks for ESP32, getting an SSD1306 OLED screen running on it and and and...

So yeah, it enables my brain to just chase the inspiration rabbit without getting too bogged down in infrastructure.

Shout out to all those generous souls who posted how-to's and project notes for their IoT projects, so that machines could learn from them.

RIP to those generous souls

Why would it be obviously ridiculous if it granted the parent commenter so much productivity?

Perhaps the same obvious ridiculousness that manual agrarians passed upon the tractor.

Vibe coding is not using a chat interface to explore an unfamiliar domain like GP describes, it's letting an agent tool like Cursor or Goose do most of the work semi-independently.

Vibe coding is not looking at the code, essentially. See what Simon Willison has written about it (the original term was coined[0] by Andrej Karpathy): https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/

[0] Only two months ago!

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