When it comes to personal projects I'm feeling extremely unmotivated. Things feel more in reach and I've probably built ten times the number of throwaway projects in the past year than I have in previous years. Yet I feel no inspiration to see those projects through to the end. I feel no connection to them because I didn't build them. I have a feeling of 'what's the point' publishing these projects when the same code is only a few prompts away for someone else too. And publishing them under my name only cheapens the rest of my work which I put real cognitive effort into.
I think I want to focus more on developing knowledge and skills moving forward. Whatever I can produce with an LLM in a few hours is not actually valuable unless I'm providing some special insight, and I think I'm coming to terms with that at the moment.
For me, this is a key differentiator between “AI-assisted” and “vibe-coded”. With the former, I may use AI in many ways: some code generation, review, bouncing ideas, or whatever. But I engage in every step, review and improve the generated code, disagree with the reviews (and still contribute a good proportion of hand-written code, at least in the core business logic). In this way I retain sufficient ownership over the output to feel it is my own.
With vibe-coding, I feel exactly as you describe it.