What I Build Now That The Machine Writes The Code

AI does not just make me type faster. It changes what is worth building.

For years, I had a list of projects I never started. They were not impossible. They were just too expensive in terms of time and skill. AI lowered that cost.

When you lower the cost of building, you do not just do the same tasks faster. You start things you would never have attempted before.

Here are three ways my work changed this year:

  1. Projects that were too big For fifteen years, my ecommerce solution ran on Joomla. People asked for WordPress support constantly. I always said no. Rewriting fifteen years of code was too much work for a small team.

With AI, I built a bridge. This bridge lets Joomla code run on WordPress. What used to take years took a few weeks. The project was always possible. It was just too expensive. AI changed the price.

  1. Projects that required missing skills I am not a designer. I had ideas for how my software should look, but I lacked the technical craft to build them.

AI did not give me taste. I still provide the judgment and the vision. However, it closed the gap between my ideas and the final screen. I built Vessel, a new template, because the skill barrier is now low enough to cross.

  1. Projects that were too small to justify We all have small daily annoyances. We ignore them because fixing them takes a whole weekend. AI moved that line. A weekend now fixes problems I lived with for years.
  • I built JARLIS to manage Japanese emails that I could not read easily.
  • I built Omnitext because opening files on my phone was a bad experience. It opens almost any file type quickly and keeps data on the device.

The main takeaway is about cost.

AI makes building cheap. When things become cheap, projects that sit on the edge of "worth it" cross the line.

The big becomes small. The hard becomes reachable. The tiny becomes a Saturday project.

This change means building is no longer the scarce resource. Everyone can build now. The real value lies in your judgment. You must decide what is worth building and if it is actually good.

The machine did not shrink my work. It widened it.

Source: https://dev.to/hikashopnicolas/what-i-build-now-that-the-machine-writes-the-code-2hb5

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