What I build now that the machine writes the code
AI does not just make me type faster. It makes more projects worth starting.
In the past, I ignored many ideas. The cost to build them was higher than the payoff. AI lowered that cost. Now, I start things I would never have attempted before.
I built three specific types of projects this year:
Projects that were too big For fifteen years, HikaShop ran on Joomla. People wanted it on WordPress. I said no because rewriting fifteen years of code takes too much time. With AI, I built a bridge to run Joomla code on WordPress. What would have taken years took a few weeks.
Projects that required skills I do not have I am not a designer. I could not build good templates for HikaShop. I have the taste to know what looks good, but I lacked the execution skills. AI closed that gap. I used my judgment and the machine handled the craft. This led to our first template, Vessel.
Projects that were too small to justify I used to live with small daily annoyances because fixing them cost too much time. Now, a weekend is enough to solve them.
I built JARLIS to manage Japanese emails for an association I serve. I built Omnitext because opening files on my phone was a bad experience. I wanted one fast app that keeps files on my device. Now I have it.
The main lesson is about cost. When building becomes cheap, you do not just do the same things faster. You cross the line from "not worth it" to "must do."
The too-big becomes a few weeks. The out-of-reach becomes reachable. The too-small becomes a Saturday.
This change creates a new challenge. If building is cheap for me, it is cheap for everyone. There will be a flood of new products.
The value is no longer in the building. The value is 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