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What kind of small things have you vibed out that you needed?
FWIW that's a good question but IMHO the better question is :
What kind of small things have you vibed out that you needed that didn't actually exist or at least you couldn't find after a 5min search on open source forges like CodeBerg, Gitblab, Github, etc?
Because making something quick that kind of works is nice... but why even do so in the first place if it's already out there, maybe maintained but at least tested?
So if it can be vibe coded, it's pretty much certainly already a "thing", but with some awkwardness.
Maybe what you need is a combination of two utilities, maybe the interface is very awkward for your use case, maybe you have to make a tiny compromise because it doesn't quite match.
Maybe you want a little utility to do stuff with media. Now you could navigate your way through ffmpeg and mkvextract, which together handles what you want, with some scripting to keep you from having to remember the specific way to do things in the myriad of stuff those utilities do. An LLM could probably knock that script out for you quickly without having to delve too deeply into the documentation for the projects.
I'll put it this way: LLMs have been getting pretty good at translation over the past 20 years. Sure, human translators still look down their noses at "automated translations" but, in the real world, an automated translation gets the job done well enough most of the time.
LLMs are also pretty good at translating code, say from C++ to Rust. Not million line code bases, but the little concepts they can do pretty well.
On a completely different tack, I've been pretty happy with LLM generated parsers. Like: I've got 1000 log files here, and I want to know how many times these lines appear. You've got grep for that. But, write me a utility that finds all occurrences of these lines, reads the time stamps, and then searches for any occurrences of these other lines within +/- 1 minute of the first ones.... grep can't really do that, but a 5 minute vibe coded parser can.