Lost motivation
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I'm 14. Over the last month or two, I decided to learn Kotlin. Until then I had a little swe experience (mostly with c and Node.js), so Kotlin and Compose were challenging but fun. The basics clicked pretty easily and I started slowly working on a small open source project (currently 6k LoC).
A few weeks later, I published the first alpha through GitHub. Until now, it’s gotten over 100 stars and approximately 4,000 downloads. I was kinda proud of it because it was something I actually built.
Lately I've been working on a big update. The complexity grew, and I had to learn to fight between multiple Compose pages and make everything work seamlessly.
Today, just as an experiment, I decided to try the that Gemini 3.5 agent and asked it to design a statistics screen for me. I almost haven't used AI for my app until then because that's cheating. One minute later, I was staring at a beautiful UI screen.
It did so, so well.
Just for the sake of the game, I asked it to redesign my whole app in that style. In 5 minutes, the motherfucking agent wrote like 1.5k lines of code. The app looked so much better )some parts it messed up the small details, but most of the screens looked insanely good) And I did absolutely nothing.
I knew AI was great at coding, but when I tried to vibe code an Android app a year ago, it was terrible. Today is a completely different story, apparently
I already got rid of the AI code, but now I don't think I'll ever touch that project again. I don't want to use AI for this because it's all about my satisfaction and learning. But after seeing how fast AI can spit out a better version of my weeks of work, spending time on this app feels like a waste of time.
