I’ve been writing code for three decades. I started on an old IBM compatible 286 computer running DOS, and I’ve been doing it ever since. A lot has changed as hardware, new languages, and new computing paradigms have been introduced over the years. The internet, and then later the cloud, completely changed how modern software is written, deployed, purchased, and used, and all for the better.

But nothing in my entire coding career prepared me for the experience I had, conversationally chatting with an AI agent while it built a custom app for me. It blew my mind. I literally didn’t write a single line of code. I talked to a computer—just like I’d talk to a software developer—and it wrote the app. I clicked a few buttons and deployed it, and now I have a custom app that I use at my fab shop (OSH Cut) to help manage workflows.

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