It's a strange moment when you realise technology has quietly crossed a threshold from "impressive but limited" to "wait, this changes everything."

I've been living in one of those moments lately, stumbling into "vibe coding" – and it's making me rethink everything I assumed about who gets to create anything. 

The Breakthrough

Here's what happened: with little to no coding experience I decided to build an RSS reader that lets you chat with the audio from podcasts. Not because I suddenly became a coding genius, but because the gap between imagining something and creating it has basically disappeared. Between ChatGPT's voice interface and Cursor's chat + agent function, I'm building like someone having a conversation with a brilliant but slightly confused intern who somehow makes things work.

Finding Flow

The process itself is awesome – headphones in, vibing with the agent, speaking my commands, hitting command+enter like I'm playing some kind of tech piano. It's this flow state I never expected to find. The traditional barriers between "I have an idea" and "I can build this" are dissolving in real time.

What makes this shift particularly interesting is how it inverts our traditional relationship with computers. For decades, we've been adapting ourselves to the machine's way of thinking – learning their syntax, their logic, their unforgiving precision. But something fundamental has changed. These brains don't demand we speak their language; they're learning to speak ours. When something breaks, I don't dive into complex error messages. Instead, I say things like "hey, this feels stuck" or "the flow isn't right here." And somehow, remarkably, the AI understands.

Evolution of Creation

This represents something about how technology is evolving to meet us where we are, rather than demanding we adapt to it. Think about the evolution of website creation. There was a time when building a website meant learning multiple coding languages, understanding complex technical concepts, and probably swearing at your computer a lot. Then came tools like Squarespace and Webflow, and suddenly anyone could create a professional-looking site. The technical knowledge didn't disappear – it was abstracted away, hidden behind interfaces that matched how non-technical people think about design & content.

We're seeing the same pattern with software development, but at a far more fundamental level. The abstraction isn't just about making things prettier or easier to organise – it's about transforming the entire act of creation into something that feels natural, intuitive, almost conversational.

Real World Results

My RSS reader isn't perfect. Most features took dozens of back-and-forth conversations to get right, like trying to explain a specific craving to someone who's never tasted food but knows everything about cooking. But here's the thing – it works. It exists. I made something real. And I built it in a weekend.

The entire stack cost less than a flight to spain:

• Cursor (£20)

• ChatGPT (£20)

• Claude (£20)

• Vercel and NotebookLM were free.

• All the APIs, also free.
  
  So all in about £60.

What's wild is how different AI models excel at different tasks. DeepSeek R1 became my go-to for explaining code and exploring possibilities, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet powered the agent that helped me build.

Fixing errors? It was as simple as saying "fix this error now." ChatGPT's voice function and computer vision helped guide me through the process, making it feel less like debugging and more like having a conversation with a knowledgeable friend.

This democratisation of software development feels like a turning point. We're moving from a world where building software was a highly technical skill requiring years of study to one where the main requirement is the ability to imagine something and explain it clearly. It's less about knowing how to code and more about deeply understanding the underlying ideas and knowing what you want to create.

Idea + deep knowledge > Execution

Implications

The implications of this shift are still unfolding. Just as website builders unleashed a wave of creativity in web design, these tools might unleash a similar explosion in software development.

The limiting factor is no longer just technical knowledge – it's imagination.

And that's a very different kind of barrier.

But perhaps the most fascinating aspect is how these tools are getting better literally every week. Features that didn't work a month ago suddenly become possible. Ideas that seemed too complex become manageable. The horizon of what's possible keeps expanding, and the gap between imagination and reality keeps shrinking.

We all get to live in that “apple” world of continuous innovation.

In The Near Future

What becomes possible when anyone with an idea can bring it to life? my intuition is we start with slop and bad actors which over time turns into highly personalised apps and experiences that make our lives better/ easier 

There's this theory floating around about how we're moving toward an allocation economy. Building this app felt like living that theory – with a finite amount of capital, I had to think strategically about how to allocate these AI tools to bring my vision to life. It's a glimpse into a future where success isn't just about technical skill or massive budgets, but about being clever with how you orchestrate increasingly powerful tools.

We're entering an era where the only real limit is your ability to imagine and articulate what you want to create

What ideas have you been sitting on, thinking they were impossible to execute?

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