I've gone back and forth in my usage of LLMs, from full on vibe coding, to plans and execution, to just using the autocomplete in Clion. I've basically stabilized to a few types of usage now for vibe coding, all notably for ideas or disposable code

- prototypes for games, pipe it a love2d template and let it loose. Make sure it wires in a crude imgui style gui so that I can twiddle various numbers.

- wild refactor ideas in a new branch which I never keep. Used for reference basically.

- the main one. Getting it to create disposable tooling. This has been huge for me, and a lot of nice to have tools in the past I can now get an llm to create in a few minutes.

I too quit a job that made a significant pivot to weapons R&D. It was a hard move, and honestly I still haven't recovered from it. I don't regret the decision in the slightest though.

One aspect that sticks with me was the sheer excitement of a lot of people in the room, engineers excited to be working on new problems. I believe many didn't consider the consequences of their labor.

As a worker it can take time for it to sink in that the products you are actively working on are being used for immoral/unethical purposes. I've also noticed a perceived weakness when expressing these types of views to colleagues, responses either masked by apathy or just direct justified destruction of lives along patriotic or ideological lines.

Its worth bringing up these stories whenever appropriate I believe, people sometimes _need_ a jolt even if the probability of success are low.

I've settled over the years on using syncthing to keep copies on my machine and phone. After testing quite a few android players I settled on Oto Music. I'm currently back in the Mac world and use Cog. I still like to use cmus in the terminal.

For acquiring music, the bulk I get from bandcamp. I usually try hard to get my music legally, but sometimes it isn't possible, ripping from YouTube, searching torrent sites, using russian search sites which still seem to index the blogs that stored downloadable links to music like we had about 10 years ago...

That's my setup as well with a hacked version of Retro Music https://github.com/RetroMusicPlayer/RetroMusicPlayer to show lyrics on supported Bluetooth receivers and Android Auto.

Yes, synchthing is godsend + also there are several music streaming docker based servers you can pair with an app on your phone and stream only the things you like (or download them) without moving the whole collection on the device.