I don't understand the idea that you "could not think about implementing a feature".
I can think of roughly 0 fratures of run-of-the-mill software that would be impossible to implement for a semi-competent software developer. Especially for the kinds of applications you mention.
Also it sounds less like you're productive and more like the vibeslop projects are distracting you.
I'm claiming it's both.
I produce more good (imo) production features despite being distracted.
The features I mention is something that I would be able to do, but only with a lot of learning and great effort - so in practical terms I would not.
It is probably a skill issue but in the past many times I downloaded the open source project and just couldn't build and run it. Cryptic build errors, figuring out dependencies. And I see claude gets the same errors but he just knows how to work around those errors. Setting up local development environment (db, dummy auth, dummy data) for a project outside of my competence area is already more work than I'm willing to do for a simple feature. Now it's free.
>I can think of roughly 0 fratures of run-of-the-mill software that would be impossible to implement for a semi-competent software developer.
Yes. I'm my area of competence it can do the coding tasks I know exactly how to do just a bit faster. Right now for those tasks I'd say it can one shot code that would take me a day.
But it enables me to do things in the area where I don't have expertise. And getting this expertise is very expensive.