[sageserpent]

I've never vibe-coded anything from scratch, but I do use the likes of Claude and Jules to work on my own open source projects.

All of these have a couple of thousand commits that I'd done myself over the years, so I don't have that sense of "what has been built and what's my contribution?".

What I find very fulfilling is to finally get to have drudge-work tickets that I'd put off for ages done. It's nice to be able to pair-program with the LLM as well, I rather enjoy the back-and-forth of ideas - I'm sometimes pleasantly surprised by how insightful an LLM can be. Pair-programming / reviewing keeps that sense of involvement going, in fact it accentuates it somewhat, because I have to keep on top of what the LLM is doing.

The novelty of conversing with a synthetic quasi-intelligence hasn't worn off yet, either.

It's not always plain-sailing, though. Sometimes they go off the rails. :-)