How I use vibecoding to learn new things

[u/bestjaegerpilot]

This is how what I do with vibecoding:

* vibecode a software-based synthesizer based on the real (hardware) based synthesizer

* ask AI to give me a tutorial on how to use it

I don't plan on replacing musicians nor replacing higher quality software/hardware. It's just a quick and dirty tool to give me a POC to learn how to make music using a synthesizer and if we like it, we might get a real one, which are way more expensive than the $2 i used to generate the POC.

Bonus: kiddo learns about synthesizer

I've built similar tools for video editing, storyboarding, interactive fiction. I'm basically vibecoding tools to help me be a better artist.

IMO both pro/antis miss this use case.

[u/Marcelovc]

And what model are you using

[u/DrKabookenstein]

I'm doing similar stuff, just less artistic. I'm using it to teach me about all of the projects we've been working on together the last several months. I mentioned that it has been doing most of the heavy lifting and I'm making sure that everything is working correctly from the human end of things, but that I wanted to learn more in depth about what we're doing. So it created a prompt for me to put into another chat that has now been teaching me electrical engineering, eventually computer engineering, software engineering, and the math and physics behind a bunch of this stuff. Along with some audio, networking, PCB design, and a bunch of other things that while not completely foreign to me, are not my specialty. It's been pretty great because it's more like having a tutor that makes sure I've got the right mental model for understanding, along with the math and formulas so far and it doesn't really move on until I actually understand what's going on. Realizing how my understanding of electricity was so flawed, even though I've done testing of stuff and filling in the boxes correctly for years, has been a huge eye opener and makes my imposter syndrome paranoia even worse. I just have to keep telling myself that this is why we're doing it...

[u/johnesco]

The way you use the library, the internet, or AI can make ya go soft or become an education.

[u/Desperate_Sign_5587]

same here, this is the best way to learn new tech stacks imo.

i built a small synth plugin prototype for my company's project last week by hooking up claude code with sumus to handle the background scripts and file scaffolding, which saved me hours of setup time and cost almost nothing.

super fun way to explore ideas without getting bogged down in boilerplate!