I’ll speak up. I am not a good coder, nowhere near the level of even your average professional developer. I’m OK, and I have been writing code of some kind or

I’ll speak up. I am not a good coder, nowhere near the level of even your average professional developer. I’m OK, and I have been writing code of some kind or another since I was a kid in the late 80’s and have managed many technical projects and I would say I have a pretty deep understanding of how it all works. The thing I’m best at is devops type stuff and rails but even with that I’m wildly out of practice since I’m a founder/CEO type of a non software company and I can go a week or two without even touching code. These tools have completely changed everything for me in a way that is really disconcerting. Previously every time I wanted to change an app I had worked on, add a feature to something, or do something like call an API to grab something interesting from another business resource and pass it along, I was in for a couple hours just getting my head into what I was doing. I’d sort of block out a weekend and by sometime Sunday afternoon I would be getting there. Now I can just start talking to GPT like it’s an experienced developer sitting next to me. Hey so if I wanted to call this service how would I structure the query. Hey look at this curl and tell me some reasons it might be getting this error. It definitely can’t do things for me. Without a pretty deep background in software as a concept and practical experience I wouldn’t even know where to start. But I do have those things. And also I’m the guy who just knows the business logic and what I want. Now I can get what I want like 30-40x faster. To be honest it feels very strange, after being sort of frustrated by translating my requirements into specs for 20 years to work with developers and wasting a lot of time it feels like someone popped a babel fish in my ear. So there’s one anecdote.