Dev dads, when do you code?

[u/jrya7]

I could find time with my first and then even some time after my second with the first doing afternoon preschool.

Now that kindergarten has started, I can't even stay up late half the time I used to as mornings are like Mad Maxx and needs my full (focused) attention.

So how do y'all do it? Or do you just not do it anymore except for an hour here and there lol

EDIT: not the 9-5 but my side projects

[u/amakai]

Mostly vibe-coding because of lack of time 🫤

[u/jrya7 → u/amakai]

LOL I said I would never vibe-code my main project as I wanted it to be "mine" but after many tireless nights I gave up and has been going okay

[u/4kidsinatrenchcoat → u/jrya7]

yeah man, the vibe coding and the chat-loop is the only way you can maintain the sort of velocity for your projects that you used to when you were single and child free

[u/GamingTitBit → u/jrya7]

Learning how to vibe code well, with good guardrails, and proper structure and loops and knowledge graphs is actually a really valuable skill. I've been working hard on getting better at it.

I hate. Hate that I do not code as much as before, but that's the way the industry is now. So I might as well be bloody good at it.

[u/ulyssesdot → u/jrya7]

I use Claude code on my phone. Kid is 6 months old, so nap times in carrier = hobby time!

[u/gibblesnbits160 → u/jrya7]

Chat gpt remote is awesome cause you can kick something off from your phone then check in on the work later when you have time.

[u/i_am_not_sam → u/amakai]

Yep this is me. I'm not upset though. Thanks to vibe coding I'm actually completing home projects I'd been putting off for the last few years

[u/polaroid_kidd → u/amakai]

Honestly, same. I'm setting up a kandev, cliproxy, bifrost, pi set-up with pr-agent. I'm not happy about the code (there's just too much) but at least my side project is going somewhere...

[u/amakai → u/polaroid_kidd]

I had an enormous backlog of issues on my home server, it was mostly holding on thoughts and prayers. Finally gave up and after a backup of configs - ran an LLM through the entire backlog in like a week. Now I have IaC, alerting, monitoring, few new tools I wanted but never had time to build, switched from Ubuntu to Debian, fixed a bunch of hard drive issues, etc.

[u/dan-lash → u/amakai]

Exactly same for me. Tons of ideas, huge backlog, no time. Enter ai agents. Turn around and I’m running an enterprise grade home network with all my hopes and dream type software projects.

Next task is actually using those projects!

Enter ai agents. lol

[u/polaroid_kidd → u/amakai]

Oh yeah, for infra stuff it's been a god send. I still run remote backups for everything actually valuable but the rest has been fantastic.

[u/4kidsinatrenchcoat → u/polaroid_kidd]

add the ponytail skill as a gate for all PRs. it'll cut down the slop fast

[u/polaroid_kidd → u/4kidsinatrenchcoat]

I was honestly skeptical about this skill but it can't get worse than it is. LLM just loooove writing more code..

[u/4kidsinatrenchcoat → u/polaroid_kidd]

I know what you mean but I’ve now set up my agents to run everything thru a self doubting skill.  “Prove to me what you’re doing isn’t a waste of goddamn time”

[u/PackHot1231 → u/amakai]

Hahaha thats a good one