The maker tools are unproductive on purpose. Nobody expects your Arduino project to ship to customers. Nobody expects your homebrew computer to compete with IBM. The whole point is that you have the permission to fuck around, and the finding-out happened gradually, through play, over years. This is where the old Silicon Valley adage comes from: “What smart people do on the weekends, everyone else will do during the week in ten years.” Vibe coding broke this pattern. https://read.technically.dev/p/vibe-coding-and-the-maker-movement