How does this work though? Do you have around 4 hours worth of work you report on? Are you paid for more than 4 hours? I’m so curious when people throw completely alien statements like this out like it’s something that doesn’t even warrant explanation.
I freelance. Occasionally I get called by former clients to work on legacy systems I was lead on. And I have some support tasks for former clients.
For one company I log on once a month, I start a Renovate process which generates pull-requests for updated dependencies. Patch-versions get auto-merged after tests succeed, minor and major need approval of the current lead. Sometimes I need to manually tweak the code a bit because of API changes or to get tests to pass. I'm allowed to bill them four hours on it regardless of actual work, which is between five minutes (no manual intervention required) and two hours (need to rewrite some code).
For another company I create a report once a month for all outages and which errors frequently show up in logging. I automated this to be a five minute task and it generates a Wiki page. I review the page to see if everything is ok. I bill an hour on this.
The company is happy to not have to allocate engineer hours on maintenance so they can continue pumping out new features.
I'd say that on average I work 4 hours and bill 12 hours. This is comparable to the income of someone in employment working around 24 hours. But I do run a significant risk obviously.
How does the analogy work with music though? Are you saying that because there is now over-produced pop there is now less rock, jazz or whatever you prefer? If so, is that actually true and verifiable by numbers?
More like among the things you could stumble on at random, a greater proportion of them are things you're not interested in. You incur more of a burden of intentionality/effort. Less like discovering, where something happens to you, and more like seeking/finding, an act of will. Which some will say they prefer, maybe even me included...
Wouldn't it be easier and/or faster to create a userscript? I've "vibe coded" tens myself, but never really saw the use case for making a full extension out of any of them. Genuinly curious what you made.
I allegedly know someone who allegedly uses a pirating site for watching the NFL. The site has every kind of clickjacking and malwarey trick. The extension makes only the correct buttons work, the volume controls the volume, the full screen button controls the screen size etc.
Another one (I've open sourced, you can check it out here https://github.com/luvchurchill/mani-gpg) A site I use (manifold.markets) announced they are getting rid of DMs due to spam (they've since brought it back) so I made an extension which makes it easy to use pgp & age encryption on the site so we can do pseudo DMs. It injects "Decrypt" buttons next to exncrypted text etc etc. You can see screenshots at https://manifold.markets/post/an-extension-to-assist-with-so...
(Look at the comments for the latest look)
Besides for that, there are a few I'm sure can be scripts
My problem was the exact opposite. I wanted to deliver but the dislike of the actual programming / typing code prevented me from doing so. AI has solved this for me.
I have AI agents write, perform code review, improve and iterate upon the code. I trust that an agent with capabilities to write working code can also improve it. I use Claude skills for this and keep improving the skills based on both AI and human code reviews for the same type of code.
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