I’m unsure, if this is the right community for this, but I’m really curious about agenic vibe coding for hobby projects. As in: I have trouble gasping the reasoning behind it, especially given it’s current prevalence.

I really like programming to the point of creating a lot of what I’d label “art for noone”. I’m also tangentially interested in ML ever since reading the DeepDream papers.

But, the whole “agentic” hobby stuff feels weird to me. I just don’t get why anyone would give their hobby project over to a machine. I get that people use is for work. I even understand how someone may want to sell slop for a quick buck, even if I hate that idea.

But your personal hobby game project? Why would I have a computer do my hobby for me?

Even not minding the ethical questions. I genuienly don’t get it. And worse, I feel like a lot of people vibe coding their hobby away, are not even interested in the technology, outside of getting it do their hobby.

I know this comes over a bit critiquey, perhaps because it is a little. But mostly I’m dumb founded. Thanks for any insights. Please don’t meat-proxy.

Edit: Just want to mention, I read and appreciate all comments. I just find my own replies sound too harsh, and I don’t want to discourage anyone from weighing in. Thank you!

  • ShimitarAEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yeah i managed to acquire two 16gb Nvidia cards and built a Ryzen box around it. With 32gb vram and llamacpp you can do wonders . Maybe slowly.

    Anyway the cards alone are over 2k€ nowadays, and they are OLD, so really crazy.

    And the power consumption… My rig is round 500w when operating with full GPUs… So can get quite expensive quickly. Easy to get to 5kw per day with only a few hours of llm running.

    • e0qdk@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      My rig is round 500w when operating with full GPUs

      I don’t know if there’s a good way to do it with NVIDIA cards, but with AMD, I can set a power cap. I cap my R9700 to 210W (normally it uses 300W) and still get almost all the decode speed (prefill takes a bit of a hit, but still decent enough) – plus it’s quieter that way.

      • ShimitarAEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        It is possible with nvidia-smi, I recently found out about. I need to esperiment …

    • eleitl@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      5 kWh/day is what my current DIY solar PV system produces, as an annual average. I have about enough free roof space to double it. So this sounds good. Presumably, a Halo Strix like system would burn less, at still sufficient tokens/s.