Developer admits to abandoning projects after setup is complete

Crypton228 · reddit · 2026-08-15

A developer on Reddit shared a bad habit: getting a new project 90% complete and then losing interest. The setup phase—getting dependencies working, detecting the GPU, downloading models, and seeing it run—is satisfying, but the actual project gets abandoned shortly after. The author speculates that 'getting things working' is half the hobby and asked if others experience the same pattern.

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